Frontispiece Portrait (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras)
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Frontispiece Portrait (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras)
- Engraver: William Hogarth (British, London 1697–1764 London)
- Sitter: Said to portray Samuel Butler (British, baptized Strensham, Worcestershire 1613–1680 Covent Garden)
- Sitter: Actual sitter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (French, Lille 1636–1699 London)
- Date: April 1726
- 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
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
- Object Number: 32.35(98)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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