Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 3 & 4 vanity fair prints the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe

the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe and Tywardreth

a ragged child with a hoop

Size: 352mm x 270mm

Some discolouration

a one-legged fiddler

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 3 & 4 vanity fair prints the Earl of Mount EdgecumbeThis is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth, consisting of "Hudibras's First Adventure" (Plate 3) and "Catechiz'd" (Plate 4). 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