Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 5 & 6 politicans and on the right a

and on the right a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia

Artist: Carlo Pellegrini ("Ape")

Sir Frederick Carrington

the scene is the bedroom of the widow who stands in the doorway

Condition: good - discolouration to edges and pencil marks

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 5 & 6 politicans and on the right aThis 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