Frontispiece Portrait (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras)
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate): 4 1/2 x 2 13/16 in. (11.5 x 7.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.35(98)
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
William Hogarth|Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer|Samuel Butler · 1697–1764
William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an English painter, printmaker, and pictorial satirist who became the first great English-born artist to attract admiration abroad. Born into poverty in London, the son of a failed schoolmaster who was imprisoned for debt, Hogarth's early experiences with the harsh realities of 18th-century urban life profoundly shaped his artistic vision. After apprenticing with si...