print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1847,0508.19
- Title
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Object: Hudibras encounters the Skimmington
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Series: Hudibras
- Description
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Plate 7: a riotous scene in a country village where a shrewish wife and hen-pecked husband are mocked by their neighbours, cuckold's horns and a petticoat are held aloft while "rough music" is played, a cat is thrown; Hudibras rides into the crowd to protest at what he describes as a Devil's Procession. 1726
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1726
- Dimensions
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Height: 268 millimetres
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Width: 504 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For the Skimmington, see V. Alford, "Rough music or charivari", Folklore, CXX, 1959, pp. 505-18.
Literature: T.Clayton, 'The English Print 1688-1802', New Haven and London, 1997, pp.90.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2018 -2019, 6 Sep - 20 Jan, London, BM, G35, I Object
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Commonwealth 1649-1660
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Hudibras
- Acquisition date
- 1847
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1847,0508.19
