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

Edition:
[State 3].
Published/Created:
[London]
[Philip Overton and John Cooper]
[1726]
Physical Description:
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 27.3 x 51.4 cm, on sheet 28.4 x 52.5 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 ..."
Sotheby's, F.E. Sotheby Sale, lot 215 (Hogarth's works) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 21 Nov. 1955; Acquisition no.: 955-11-21-94. Purchased as a bound collection of 97 prints with Sotheby bookplate; disbound January 1984.
Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.
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, 1726-1737 [Publisher]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]
Overton, Philip, -1751 [Publisher]
Topics:
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680
Cats
Crowds
Effigies
Horns
Horses
Kettles
Noise
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Puritans -- England
Riots
Signs (Notices)
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909
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 -- 1725
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1726
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:
Sotheby 94+ Box 205
Orbis Record:
9887716
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr22231
Volume/Enumeration:
Digital version
OID:
16030548
PID:
digcoll:2808289