Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 12 vanity fair prints The Earl of Dunraven

The Earl of Dunraven

Lord Henry Bentinck

Antique plan of Regent's Park

Sir George White

depicting "The Burning of the Rumps at Temple Bar"

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 12 vanity fair prints The Earl of DunravenThis 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