Monument with a portrait of Samuel Butler; a youth sculpts a relief as a satyr holds Butler's book Hudibras towards him while Britannia looks at her reflection in a mirror. Engraving by William Hogarth.

[London] (No 53 in Fleet Street) : Robt Sayer, [1768]

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 23.7 x 34.4 cm.

Frontispiece and its explanation. The basso releivo, on the pedestal, represents the general design of Mr Butler, in his incomparable <po>em of Hudibras, viz Butler's genious in a car, lashing around Mount Parnassus, in the persons of Hudibras, &, Ralpho, Rebellion, Hypocrisy, and Ignorance, the reigning vices of his time. W. Hogarth inven & sculp. The inscription on either side of Butler's portrait reads: "Mr Samuel Butler author of Hudibras born, 1612. died, 1680

Paulson state III.

R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, London 1989, 3rd edition, no. 82

Wellcome Collection 38081i