Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 11 vanity fair prints the scene is the bedroom

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

printed for the London Magazine

Condition: good - uneven profile to right hand margin and slight discolouration to top and right hand margins - as seen in images

A Reference to the Hundreds keys the distances of the county divisions to their distance from London

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 11 vanity fair prints the scene is the bedroomThis is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth. This plate 11, depicting "The Burning of the Rumps at Temple Bar". 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 (17251794),