Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 9 & 10 vanity fair prints he fought to minimize the

he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen

Viceroy of India

Sir Frederick Carrington

Publication Date: 27th November 1902

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 9 & 10 vanity fair prints he fought to minimize theThis is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth, consisting of "The Committee" (Plate 9) and "Triumphant" (Plate 10). 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