Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 11 vanity fair prints printed for the London Magazine

printed for the London Magazine

The Istria's success briefly encouraged Allom to build a challenger for the America's Cup in 1913

Light foxing

the scene is the bedroom of the widow who stands in the doorway

Image size: 390mm x 265mm

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 11 vanity fair prints printed for the London MagazineThis is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth. This plate 11, depicting "The Burning of the Rumps at Temple Bar". 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),