Hudibras's first adventure [graphic]

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Title: Hudibras's first adventure [graphic]
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [1726] and [printed ca. 1768]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
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
Description: Title engraved below image.
State, publisher, and date from Paulson.
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."
Numbered "3" in upper right corner.
Provenance: Sotheby's, F.E. Sotheby Sale, lot 215 (Hogarth's works) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 21 Nov. 1955; Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 27.1 x 34.4 cm, on sheet 28.2 x 35.9 cm
Edition: [State 5].
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Humor
Early works to 1800
Satires (Visual works) England 1726
Book illustrations
Engravings England London 1726
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic): History
Bears
Crowds
Butchers
Musicians
People with disabilities
Puritans
Riots
Trained animals
Subjects: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680 > Illustrations
Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 > Humor > Early works to 1800
Bears
Crowds
Butchers
Musicians
People with disabilities
Puritans
Riots
Trained animals
England > 1726
England > London > 1726
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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