Item #51-2800 Hudibras. Complete set of 12 large engravings. William Hogarth, After., Thomas Cook, c.

Hudibras. Complete set of 12 large engravings.

London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, circa 1821. 12 Engravings on 7 sheets. 25 x 18.5 inches sheet sizes. Copies of Paulson, nos. 82-93. Few mariginal tears
Illustration to the the 17th Century work ofSamuel Butler who was influenced by Rabelais and Cervantes' Don Quixote. While in Cervantes, the noble knight although being mocked is supposed to draw readers' sympathies, Hudibras is offered nothing but derision.

The title comes from the name of a knight in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene who is described as "not so good of deeds as great of name" and "more huge in strength than wise in work". Spenser in turn probably got the name from the legendary king of the Britons, Rud Hud Hudibras.

Made by T. Cook after W. Hogarth. Thomas Cook (1744-1818) was a London engraver. Thomas was a student of Ravenet, the well-known French engraver who resided in London at the time. He has copied the entire engraved work of Hogarth, which was published under the name 'Hogarth Restored' from 1806. William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an English painter, printmaker, social critic and cartoonist. Item #51-2800

Price: $1,250.00

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