William Hogarth – Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler’s Hudibras
Missing illustration 10
The small Hudibras engravings were amongst Hogarth’s earliest attempts at book illustration. Samuel Butler first published Hudibras ‘the modern Don Quixote’ in 1662, but although the poem was hugely successful, he died in poverty and obscurity. This item also contains three unfinished proof plates, of which only one (Hudibras and Ralpho made Prisoner and carried to the Stocks), is previously recorded in Paulson. Paulson 5-21.
1. Frontispiece. Portrait of Samuel Butler
2. Hudibras Sallying Forth
3. Hudibras’ First Adventure.
4. Encounter with Talgol and Magnano.
5. Trulla Attacking Hudibras.
6.Hudibras Vanquished by Trulla.
7.Hudibras and Ralpho made Prisoner and carried to the Stocks
8.Hudibras in Tribulation.
9.Hudibras and Ralpho Disputing.
10.Missing Hudibras and the Skimmington.
11.Sidrophel Examining the Kite through his Telescope.
12.Hudibras Visiting Sidrophel.
13. Hudibras beating Sidrophel and Whachum.
14. Hudibras Wooing the Widow.
15. Hudibras Catechiz’d.
16. Burning the Rumps at Temple Bar.
17.Hudibras and the Lawyer.
Set of 16 (of 17) plates ÂŁ380
William Hogarth
William Hogarth, (born November 10, 1697, London, England—died October 26, 1764, London). The first great English-born artist to attract admiration abroad. Best known for his MORAL and satirical engravings and paintings—e.g., A Rake’s Progress (eight scenes,1733).
His attempts to build a reputation as a history painter and portraitist, however, met with financial disappointment. His aesthetic theories had more influence in Romantic literature than in painting.