Hudibras's first adventure [graphic].

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Title: Hudibras's first adventure [graphic].
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [late 18th century?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Hudibras and Ralpho encounter a mob armed with sticks; in the foreground to right, a one-legged fiddler, a butcher and a dancing bear with his leader. On the left, a woman reaches out her arms
Description: Title engraved below image.
Copy of the Hogarth print.
Caption below, on either sige of title beginning: "The catalogue and character of th' enemies best men of war; whome ina bold harangue [the] knight defies, and challenges to fight. H' encounters Talgol, routs the bear, and takes the fidler prisoner; conveys him to enchanted castle, there shuts him fast in wooden bastile."
Copy in reverse of no. 506 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. 84.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. i, p. 27; May 1954.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 277 x 337 mm, on sheet 302 x 380 mm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Humor
Early works to 1800
Satires (Visual works) England 1770
Engravings England London 1770
Book illustrations
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Name): Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic): History
Bears
Crowds
Butchers
Musicians
People with disabilities
Puritans
Riots
Trained animals
Subjects: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680 > Illustrations
Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 > Humor > Early works to 1800
Bears
Crowds
Butchers
Musicians
People with disabilities
Puritans
Riots
Trained animals
England > 1770
England > London > 1770

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