The frontispiece to an enlarged version of Henry Fielding's The tragedy of tragedies ... London : Printed and sold by J. Roberts, 1731. Hogarth chose Act II, scene viii, a burlesque of the meeting of Octavia nd Cleopatra in Drydens' All for love. The Princess Huncamunca and the Amazon Glumdalca, rivals for the love of Thumb. Hogarth show Huncamunca with large breasts and heavy arms, thick neck, and cherubic countenance
Description:
Title and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Note in Steevens's hand above: Tom thumb / 171., and On page 52 in volume 1.
Oval portrait of Henry Fielding; half length, profile to left. Finished state used as the frontispiece to Murphy's edition of 'The Works of Henry Fielding'.
Description:
Title, state, artist, date, and printmaker from Paulson., Sheet trimmed., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand beneath image: Proof given by Basire to Hogarth., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's above print: See Nichols's book 3d. edit. p. 385., and On page 194 in volume 2.
Title assigned by the cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title, imprint and placement directions., Place, publisher and date of publication from illustrations in the 1791 and 1792 editions of The History of Tom Jones. This illustration is not present in the Beinecke Library copies of either edition., Illustration to Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones ... , Book IX, Chapter 2., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs 1791 by J. Sibbald, Edinr
