Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 12 vanity fair prints The second practising Jew to

The second practising Jew to be a member of the British cabinet

depicting "The Burning of the Rumps at Temple Bar"

Antique plan of Regent's Park

Arthur Cecil

Image size: 396mm x 265mm

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plate 12 vanity fair prints The second practising Jew toThis is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth. This is plate 12, "Hudibras encounters the Skimmington". 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 (17251794), Overton's