Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 11 vanity fair prints Image size: 390mm x 265mm

Image size: 390mm x 265mm

Condition: excellent - small fold to top left corner

The second practising Jew to be a member of the British cabinet

Print depicting a group of MPs at Westminster

Condition: good - uneven profile to right hand margin and slight discolouration to top and right hand margins - as seen in images

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 11 vanity fair prints Image size: 390mm x 265mmThis 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),