Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 5 & 6 politicans Duke of Orleans

Duke of Orleans

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

Jane Stanford

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

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 5 & 6 politicans Duke of OrleansThis 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