Hudibras's first adventure [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London?]
[publisher not identified]
[late 18th century?]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 277 x 337 mm, on sheet 302 x 380 mm

Notes:

Title engraved below image.
Copy of the Hogarth print.
Caption below, on either sige of title beginning: "The catalogue and character of th' enemies best men of war; whome ina bold harangue [the] knight defies, and challenges to fight. H' encounters Talgol, routs the bear, and takes the fidler prisoner; conveys him to enchanted castle, there shuts him fast in wooden bastile."
Copy in reverse of no. 506 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1.
See Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 84.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i, p. 27; May 1954.

Abstract:

Hudibras and Ralpho encounter a mob armed with sticks; in the foreground to right, a one-legged fiddler, a butcher and a dancing bear with his leader. On the left, a woman reaches out her arms

Associated Names:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Bears
Butchers
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680
Crowds
Musicians
People with disabilities
Puritans
Riots
Trained animals

Topics:

Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Humor -- Early works to 1800

Language:

English

Genre:

Book illustrations -- England -- 1770
Engravings -- England -- London -- 1770
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1770

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

Hogarth 770.00.00.193 Box 112

Orbis Record:

11316489

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22621

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16034729

PID:

digcoll:2810249