Frontispiece and its explanation [graphic] / W. Hogarth inven. & sculp.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.
- Edition:
- [State 1].
- Published/Created:
- [London]
Printed & sold by P. Overton near St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet & I. Cooper in James Street Convent Garden,
[February 1726] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 26.2 x 34.9 cm
- Notes:
- Additonal title, state, and date from Paulson.
CtY-LW
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark, some loss of text on the left lower edge.
Lettered in image, the banner around the portrait of Butler: Mr. Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras, born 1612, died 1680.
Title engraved below image.
Verse below image: The basso releivo, on the pedestal, represents the general design, of Mr. Butler, in his incomparable poem, of Hudibras. Viz. Butlers genious in a car. Lashing around Mount Parnasus, in the persons of Hudibras, & Ralpho, Rebellion, Hypocrisy, and Ignorance, the reigning vices of his time. - Abstract:
- "An emblematic scene with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler mounted on a pedestal on which is carved a relief showing a satyr whipping figures of Rebellion, Hypocrisy and Ignorance dressed as puritans, while he drives a chariot drawn by Hudibras and Ralpho; in the foreground, on the left, a satyr holds up a volume of Butler's poem as a guide for the carver (a boy dressed only in an apron), and on the right a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Variant Titles:
- Hudibras frontispiece
- Topics:
- Britannia (Symbolic character),--depicted.
Parnassus, Mount (Greece)
Puritans--England.
Religion.
Satyrs (Greek mythology)
Tombs & sepulchral monuments.
Vice. - Topics:
- Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660--Humor--Early works to 1800.
- Topics:
- Butler, Samuel,--1612-1680.--Hudibras--Illustrations.
Butler, Samuel,--1612-1680--Portraits.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Book illustrations.
Emblem pictures.
Engravings--England--London--1726.
Etchings--England--London--1726.
Frontispieces.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1726. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 (Oversize)
- Orbis Record:
- 9868111
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr26082xa
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1, no. 504
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 82
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), no. 73 - OID:
- 16945054
- PID:
- digcoll:4889787
