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Frontispiece and its explanation
Title
Frontispiece and its explanation [graphic] / W. Hogarth inven. & sculp.
Edition
[State 4].
Publication
London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street, [1726]
Manufacture
[printed ca. 1768]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 26.3 x 35 cm, on sheet 27.6 x 37 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title engraved below image.
State and date from Paulson.
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.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.
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
Hudibras frontispiece and explanation
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 03, 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.
Book illustrations.
Emblem pictures.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1726.
Engravings - England - London - 1726.
Etchings - England - London - 1726.
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