Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 12 vanity fair prints Sir George White

Sir George White

Image size: 396mm x 265mm

The Earl of Dunraven

Admiral Sir Hastings Reginald Yelverton (born Hastings Reginald Henry

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 12 vanity fair prints Sir George WhiteThis is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth. This is plate 12, "Hudibras encounters the Skimmington". 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), Overton's