Frontispiece and its explanation [graphic].

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Description

Title
Frontispiece and its explanation [graphic].
Alternative Title
Hudibras frontispiece and explanation
Contributor
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created
[between 1770 and 1800?]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

An emblematic scene with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler (looking left) 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 rightt, 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 left a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia

Description
Title engraved below image.
After Hogarth.
Caption on either side of title: "The basso releivo, on the pedestal, represents the general design, of Mr. Butler, in his incomparable poem, of Hudibras. Viz. Butler's genious in a car lashing around Mount Parnassus in the persons of Hudibras & Ralpho, Rebellion, Hypocrisy and Ignorance the reigning vices of his time."
Copy in reverse of no. 504 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. 82.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i, p. 25; May 1954.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 276 x 347 mm, on sheet 299 x 396 mm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Hogarth 770.00.00.191 Box 112

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Illustrations
Caricatures and cartoons
Frontispieces
Emblem pictures
Satires (Visual works) England 1770
Book illustrations
Engravings England London 1770
Etchings England London 1770
Material
etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Geographic)
England.
Great Britain
Subject (Name)
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680,
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic)
Puritans
History
Britannia (Symbolic character)
Religion
Satyrs (Greek mythology)
Parnassus, Mount (Greece)
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Vice
Subjects
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680 > Illustrations
Puritans > England
Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660
Britannia (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
Religion
Satyrs (Greek mythology)
Parnassus, Mount (Greece)
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Vice
England > 1770
England > London > 1770

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
11316407
Object ID (OID)
16034727

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