Hudibras has arrested the fiddler with a wooden leg and is leading him to prison (seen on the right) while Ralpho attaches his violin to the stocks; a ragged child with a hoop, a well-dressed woman, and two young man look on (left).
Description:
Title engraved above image.
Publisher:
Robert Sayer
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
Puritans, Children, Couples, Criminals, Games, Horses, People with disabilities, Violins, Women, Stocks (Punishment), and History
"To right, a soldier and a young woman embracing each other; to extreme right, a woman seated, facing back; to left, a soldier on a horse, in profile to left, holding another horse's bridle; in a landscape."--British Museum online catalogue, descripti...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 23, 1794, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
A garden scene with two lovers in intimate conversation, with the father near-by. Other guests mingle in the distance in an allee. Musicians play fiddles, lower right
"The happy family engaged in the noblest work of humanity, that of relieving the indigent, and giving succour to the aged and infirm". See S. Ireland's Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, p. 128
