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'The Battle of the Pictures', 1745. ' The bearer hereof is entitled (if he thinks proper) to be a bidder for Mr Hogarth's pictures, which are to be sold on the last day of this month'. 'The Battle of the Pictures' was engraved as a bidder's ticket for an auction of Hogarth's paintings. The auction house is on the left and Hogarth's studio appears to the right. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)