“Hudibras” 7, ‘Hudibras and the Lawyer’ engraved by English artist William Hogarth 1697-1764
The illustrations for Samuel Butler's epic poem 'Hudibras' are William Hogarth's first published set of original engravings. This scene depicts Hudibras’s visit to a lawyer who encourages the knight to write a letter to the woman he is courting. Just as Hudibras is a play on the popular figure of the “heroic knight,” Samuel Butler used his past experience in law to satirise the lawyer. Hogarth translated Butler’s humorous critique into the engraving by showing a robed and wigged lawyer sitting in his office like a king on his throne. Hogarth’s engravings of Butler’s satirical epic summarize the social and political environment in England with the same cleverness and wit seen in his later worksThis is a 19th Century version engraved by G. Presbury from the original picture by Hogarth.
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