A copy of the Hogarth's Frontispiece and its explanation for Samuel Butler's poem Hudibras with the title engraved above the image and the text below in a single sentence below. Plate one is 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
Alternative Title:
Hudibras. Frontispiece
Description:
Title from text above image., After Hogarth., Date of publication based on publisher's name and address in imprint statement. Robert Sayer moved to 53 Fleet Street in 1760, and from 1777 onward he formed partnerships that caused him to trade under different names (Sayer & Bennett, Sayer & Co., etc.); see British Museum online catalogue. He acquired the Hogarth plates from Overton and re-issued them and copies in 1768. See Paulson., Five lines of explanatory text below image: The bass relief on the pedestal represents the general design of Mr. Butler in his incomparable poem Hudibrass ..., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 82., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1, no. 504., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet annotated in brown ink in a contemporary hand: "Twelve plates" written above image and "35" is written in upper right corner. Two sewing holes along left edge.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680, and Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
"An exterior scene set among ruins; to left the naked buttocks of Gulliver to whom an enema is being administered by a crowd of Lilliputians; to right their prime minister, carried in a thimble, supervises operations while beyond a rat carries off a child."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Punishment inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver
Description:
Printmaker, state and publisher from Paulson., Lettered below image with title followed by the quote: Nll Mrrg, Cht Nf. ndw Lps ccpc &c.&c. shd b. Prgd. See Gullivers Speech to the Honble. House of Vulgaria in Lilliput., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Originally published in 1726 as 'The Punishment inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver', this state was reissued with a new title in 1757 by Robert Sayer, who owned the plate, for which and further comment see 1858,0417.543. This state, with the publication line removed, was included in Sayer's collection of 1768, alongside the Hudibras series., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clysters., and On page 163 in volume 2.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Subject (Name):
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Subject (Topic):
Enema, Ladders, Adoration, Children, Rats, Preachers, Pulpits, and Chamber pots
Title from item., "Engraved after an original picture of Mr. John Collett in the possession of Mr. Bradford."--Below title., and Companion print to: The sacrifice / J. Collett pinxt ; J. Goldar sculpt. [London] : T. Bradford, Octr. 15th 1767.
Publisher:
Published by T. Bradford, No. 132 Fleet Street, London
Seven celebrated cartoons of Raphael Urbin were drawn at the command of Pope Leo the 10th ... and Septum tabulus chartaceae (jussu Leonis X Pontificis Romani) a Raphaele Urbinate ...
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication based on printseller's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England, Middlesex., and Middlesex (England)
Subject (Name):
Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Castles & palaces, Galleries (Display spaces), and Cartoons (Working drawings)
"Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a crowd is gathered around a merry-go-round (on which ride a prostitute, a clergyman, a shoe-black, an old crone and a Scottish nobleman); to left, the Devil hacks the limbs of Fortune, while religious leaders (both Anglican and Jewish) play at pitch and hustle; to right, emblematic figures of Honour and Honesty are beaten by Self-Interest and Villainy, and Trade sleeps."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Date range for publication based on publisher's street address. John Bowles gave his address as 13 Cornhill between 1768 and 1779; see British Museum online catalogue., Verses below image: See here [the] causes why in London, so many men are made, & undone .... Guess at the rest you find out more., Price erased in state 5 and new publication line added in state 7., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 8 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Financial crises and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes
