Title etched below image., Publication date inferred from the earliest issue of the periodical for which this plate, originally published without title and statement of responsibility in 1763., Cf. No. 4086 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Window mounted to 19 x 25 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 and Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764
Charles Churchill in the form of a huge bear (right, as in Hogarth's print The Bruiser) and wearing clerical neckbands, looks down, mouth agap, at a little dog (left) who snarls back. The dog personifies Hogarth as in his own print "Trump"; his paws rest on a artist's palette inscribed "Line of beauty". The bear's paw rests on a sheet inscribed "Epistle to Wm. Hogarth," the poem which Churchill published in response to Hogarth's sketch of Wilkes described as "John Wilkes, Esqr."
Alternative Title:
Satire on Hogarth and the Rev. C. Churchill
Description:
Title from later state, engraved for the engd. for the Hiberia magazine. and Alternative title from British Museum catalogue: Satire on Hogarth and the Rev. C. Churchill.