Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 5 & 6 americans Antique Vanity Fair print

Antique Vanity Fair print

and always being optimistic

Publication date: 19th September 1901

Ralpho is held by a man with a rope and another with a sword

seated at a table on which lies a copy of the League and Covenant

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 5 & 6 americans Antique Vanity Fair printThis is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth, consisting of "Vanquished by Trulla" (Plate 5) and "in Tribulation" (Plate 6). 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