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Frontispiece and its explanation
Title
Frontispiece and its explanation [graphic] / W. Hogarth inven. & sculp.
Edition
[State 1].
Distribution
[London] : Printed & sold by P. Overton near St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet & I. Cooper in James Street Convent Garden, [February 1726]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 26.2 x 35 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title engraved below image.
Additonal title, state, and date from Paulson.
Verse below image: The basso releivo, on the pedestal, represents the general design, of Mr. Butler, in his incomparable poem, of Hudibras. Viz. Butlers genious in a car. Lashing around Mount Parnasus, in the persons of Hudibras, & Ralpho, Rebellion, Hypocrisy, and Ignorance, the reigning vices of his time.
Lettered in image, the banner around the portrait of Butler: Mr. Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras, born 1612, died 1680.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark, some loss of text on the left lower edge.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Summary
"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."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Title from Paulson: Hudibras frontispiece
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 21, 2011
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, no. 504
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 82
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works, no. 73
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Frontispieces.
Emblem pictures.
Book illustrations.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1726.
Etchings - England - London - 1726.
Engravings - England - London - 1726.
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