Frontispiece Portrait (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

Engraver William Hogarth British
 Said to portray Samuel Butler British
 Actual sitter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer French

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Published as a frontispiece to Samuel Butler's Hudibras, this print is wrongly identified as a portrait of the author. It actually portrays the painter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer and derives from a 1715 mezzotint by George White based on a portrait by Sir George Kneller.

Frontispiece Portrait (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras), William Hogarth (British, London 1697–1764 London), Etching and engraving

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