Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 12 vanity fair prints Lord Henry Bentinck

Lord Henry Bentinck

Admiral Sir Hastings Reginald Yelverton (born Hastings Reginald Henry

Has a vertical crease on the right of the print & binding to the left edge of the sheet where it was bound into the source publication

The Earl of Dunraven

depicting "The Burning of the Rumps at Temple Bar"

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 12 vanity fair prints Lord Henry BentinckThis is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth. This is plate 12, "Hudibras encounters the Skimmington". 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), Overton's