8654 x 6448 px | 73,3 x 54,6 cm | 28,8 x 21,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1727
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The illustrations for Samuel Butler's epic poem 'Hudibras' are William Hogarth's first published set of original engravings. This scene depicts Hudibras’s visit to a lawyer who encourages the knight to write a letter to the woman he is courting. Just as Hudibras is a play on the popular figure of the “heroic knight, ” Samuel Butler used his past experience in law to satirise the lawyer. Hogarth translated Butler’s humorous critique into the engraving by showing a robed and wigged lawyer sitting in his office like a king on his throne. Hogarth’s engravings of Butler’s satirical epic summarize the social and political environment in England with the same cleverness and wit seen in his later worksThis is a 19th Century version engraved by G. Presbury from the original picture by Hogarth.
