Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 9 & 10 vanity fair prints Sir Frederick Carrington

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 9 & 10 vanity fair prints Sir Frederick CarringtonThis is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth, consisting of "The Committee" (Plate 9) and "Triumphant" (Plate 10). In 1725, William Hogarth was commissioned by Philip Overton and John Cooper to engrave "twelve Historical and most Diverting Prints, taken from the celebrated Poem of Hudibras (the Don Quixot of this Nation)". These plates then passed to Robert Sayer

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