Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 5 & 6 politicans Antique horse racing print featuring

Antique horse racing print featuring James Jewitt

Sir Frederick Carrington

The printed area measures approximately 220mm x 166mm with margins beyond

Jane Stanford

Duke of Orleans

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 5 & 6 politicans Antique horse racing print featuringThis 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