Hudibras encounters the Skimmington [graphic] / W. Hogarth inv. et sculp.

Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.
Edition:
[State 1].
Published/Created:
[London] :
[Philip Overton and John Cooper],
[1726]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 27.0 x 50.3 cm
Notes:
Title engraved below image.
Title from Paulson: Hudibras and the Skimmington.
State, publisher, and date from Paulson.
Caption on either side of title, begins: "This said, they both advanc'd, and rode a dog-trot through the bawling crowd ..."
Description based on imperfect impression; loss of text on lower edges and second section of verse; sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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Abstract:
A riotous scene in a country village where a shrewish wife and hen-pecked husband are mocked by their neighbors, cuckold's horns and a petticoat are held aloft while "rough music" is played; Hudibras rides into the crowd to protest at what he describes as a Devil's Procession.
Variant Titles:
Hudibras and the Skimmington
Topics:
Cats.
Crowds.
Effigies.
Horns.
Horses.
Kettles.
Noise.
Parades & processions.
Puritans--England.
Riots.
Signs (Notices)
Spouses.
Topics:
Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660--Humor--Early works to 1800.
Topics:
Butler, Samuel,--1612-1680.--Hudibras--Illustrations.
Cooper, John, fl. 1726-1737, publisher.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership.
Overton, Philip, -1751, publisher.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership.
Language:
English
Genre:
Book illustrations.
Engravings--England--London--1726.
Etchings--England--London--1726.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1725.
Format:
Image
Rights:
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Call Number:
Kinnaird
61K(b)
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Kinnaird 61K(b) Box 315
Orbis Record:
9877781
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr26088a
Citation:
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1, no. 510
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 88
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), no. 79
OID:
16193842
PID:
digcoll:4048235