Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 5 & 6 politicans James Weatherby

James Weatherby

Antique horse racing print featuring James Jewitt

and on the right a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia

Condition: good - discolouration to edges and pencil marks

Image size: 552mm x 403mm

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 5 & 6 politicans James WeatherbyThis is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth, consisting of "Vanquished by Trulla" (Plate 5) and "in Tribulation" (Plate 6). In 1725, William Hogarth was commissioned by Philip Overton and John Cooper to engrave "twelve Historical and most Diverting Prints, taken from the celebrated Poem of Hudibras (the Don Quixot of this Nation)". These plates then passed to Robert Sayer