print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- S,2.6
- Title
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Object: Frontispiece and its Explanation
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Series: Hudibras
- Description
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Plate 1: an emblematic scene with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler mounted on a pedestal on which is carved a relief showing a satyr whipping figures of Rebellion, Hypocrisy and Ignorance dressed as puritans, while he drives a chariot drawn by Hudibras and Ralpho; in the foreground, on the left, a satyr holds up a volume of Butler's poem as a guide for the carver (a boy dressed only in an apron), and on the right a young satyr holds up a mirror to a figure of Britannia. 1726; this state c. 1735
Etching and engraving
- Production date
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1726
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1735 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 260 millimetres
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Width: 348 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Mounted royal and kept with this print is a title page and subscription list lettered "Printed, and sold by Philip Overton, Print and Map-Seller, at the Golden Buck near St Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet; and John Cooper, in James-Street, Covent-Garden. 1726"
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Commonwealth 1649-1660
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Hudibras
- Acquisition date
- 1827 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- See comment on S,2.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- S,2.6