Frontispiece, plate 1 for "Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras"

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Frontispiece, plate 1 for "Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras"
Frontispiece, plate 1 for "Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras"
Artist/Maker (British, 1697 - 1764)
Publisher (British, active 1707 - 1744)
Publisher
Printseller (British, 1725 - 1794)
DateFebruary 1725-26
MediumEtching and engraving
DimensionsComposition: 9 3/8 × 13 5/8 in. (23.8 × 34.6 cm) Plate: 10 1/2 in. × 14 in. (26.7 × 35.6 cm) Sheet: 11 in. × 16 3/4 in. (27.9 × 42.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Arthur S. Thompson, Class of 1940
Object number1998.11.8
Not on view

Additional Details

Provenance 1998: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Arthur S. Thompson.
Signature Signed in plate at lower left: W. Hogarth Inven. & Sculp.; in plate at lower center: London Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street.
Inscribed Signed in plate at lower left: W. Hogarth Inven. & Sculp.; inscribed in plate at lower center: Frontispiece / and its / EXPLANATION.; in plate split between lower left and lower right: The Basso Releivo, on the Pedestal, Represents the - / general Design, of Mr. BUTLER, in his Incomparable / [cut off]em, of Hudibras, VUL. BUTLERS Genious in a Car,/ / Lashing around mount Parnassus, in the Persons - / of Hudibras, &, Ralpho, Rebellion, Hypocrisy, and - / Ignorance, the Reigning Vices of his time; in plate at lower center: London Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street.
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