Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 1 & 2 americans John Milton Hay (October 8

John Milton Hay (October 8

Engraved by John Cleghorn (1784-1873) from a design by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd and originally produced for Shepherd’s series “Metropolitan Improvements

Countess of Wilton

Publication date: 15 October 1903

Artist: ("OWL")

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 1 & 2 americans John Milton Hay (October 8This is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth, consisting of the Frontispiece and its Explanation (Plate I) and Sr. Hudibras (Plate 2). 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