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

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Title: Hudibras encounters the Skimmington [graphic] / W. Hogarth inv. et sculp.
Alternative Title: Hudibras and the Skimmington
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Contributor: Cooper, John, fl. 1726-1737
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Overton, Philip, -1751
Published / Created: [1726]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: [Philip Overton and John Cooper]
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.
Description: Caption on either side of title, begins: "This said, they both advanc'd, and rode a dog-trot through the bawling crowd ..."
Description based on imperfect impression; loss of text on lower edges and second section of verse; sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
State, publisher, and date from Paulson.
Title engraved below image.
Title from Paulson: Hudibras and the Skimmington.
Extent: 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 27.0 x 50.3 cm
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Book illustrations
Engravings -- England -- London -- 1726
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1726
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1725
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Humor -- Early works to 1800
Subject (Name): Cooper, John, fl. 1726-1737
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Overton, Philip, -1751
Subject (Topic): Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680
Cats
Crowds
Effigies
Horns
Horses
Kettles
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Noise
Parades & processions
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864
Puritans -- England
Riots
Signs (Notices)
Spouses
Steevens, George, 1736-1800

Access: Public
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Orbis Record: 9877781
Object ID (OID): 16030652
More Information: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1, no. 510