Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 5 & 6 americans and always being optimistic

and always being optimistic

Artist: James Jacques Tissot ("JtJ")

Please note that this only includes plates 9 & 10 - other plates are available to purchase seperately

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Antique Vanity Fair print

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 5 & 6 americans and always being optimisticThis is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth, consisting of "Vanquished by Trulla" (Plate 5) and "in Tribulation" (Plate 6). 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