Hudibras encounters the Skimmington [graphic] / W. Hogarth inv. et sculp.

Edition:
[State 1].
Published/Created:
[London]
[Philip Overton and John Cooper]
[1726]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 27.0 x 50.3 cm
Notes:
Title engraved below image.
Title from Paulson: Hudibras and the Skimmington.
State, publisher, and date from Paulson.
Caption on either side of title, begins: "This said, they both advanc'd, and rode a dog-trot through the bawling crowd ..."
Description based on imperfect impression; loss of text on lower edges and second section of verse; sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Abstract:
A riotous scene in a country village where a shrewish wife and hen-pecked husband are mocked by their neighbors, cuckold's horns and a petticoat are held aloft while "rough music" is played; Hudibras rides into the crowd to protest at what he describes as a Devil's Procession.
Variant Titles:
Hudibras and the Skimmington
Associated Names:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Printmaker]
Cooper, John, fl. 1726-1737 [Publisher]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]
Overton, Philip, -1751 [Publisher]
Topics:
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680
Cats
Crowds
Effigies
Horns
Horses
Kettles
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Noise
Parades & processions
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864
Puritans -- England
Riots
Signs (Notices)
Spouses
Steevens, George, 1736-1800
Topics:
Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Humor -- Early works to 1800
Language:
English
Genre:
Book illustrations
Engravings -- England -- London -- 1726
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1726
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1725
Format:
Image
Content Type:
Prints & Photographs
Rights:
These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
Call Number:
Kinnaird 61K(b) Box 315
Orbis Record:
9877781
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr22327
OID:
16030652
PID:
digcoll:2807157