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

William Hogarth|Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer|Samuel Butler

April 1726 · Etching and engraving · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

William Hogarth|Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer|Samuel Butler

Date

April 1726

Medium

Etching and engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932