COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL1309478
Reference Number:
R183036.46
Link to Catalogue:
Parent Work Title:
Hudibras and the lawyer. ; Hudibras beats Sidrophel and his man Whacum
Creator:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Creator Role:
Artist
Creator:
Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818
Creator Role:
Engraver
Date Created:
1802-06-01
Publication Details:
London: Published by G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row
Description:
Embedded text: To this brave man, the knight repairs / For counsel in his law-affairs; / And found him mounted in this pew, / With books, and money plac'd, for shew, / To whom the knight, with comely grace, / Put of his hat, to put his case, / Quoth he, there is one Sydrophel, / Whom I have cudgel'd very well, / And now he brags to have beaten me, / Better and better still, quoth he, / And vows to stick me to the wall / Where e'er he meets me - best of all ... Embedded text: Quoth he, this scheme o'th'heav'ns set, / Discovers how in fight you met / At Kingston with a may-pole idol, / And that y'were bang'd both back & side well; / And though you overcame the bear, / The dogs beat you at Brentford fair; / QuothHudibras, I now perceive / You are no conj'rer by your leave; / That paltr'y story is untrue, / And forg'd to cheat such gulls as you, / Not true, quoth he? how 'ere you vapour, / I can what I affirm make appear ...
Language Code:
eng-GB
Language:
English
Category of Material:
Printed
Technique Used:
Engraving (printing process)
Support:
Paper
Item Height:
590 mm
Item Width:
460 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2013-04-09
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
