Art Institute of Chicago
The Committee, plate ten from Hudibras
William HogarthLinkedCulture matchlcp-4bc0237dded5
- Date
- February 1725/26
- Medium
- Etching and engraving in black on cream paper edge, mounted on cream wove paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 184615
William Hogarth’s success as an engraver was largely due to his ability to create compositions that are clear and easy to read. At the point in Hudibras that is depicted here, Samuel Butler digressed for a canto to lampoon Oliver Cromwell and discuss the infamous burning of the rumps, the celebratory burning of effigies of members of the Long Parliament of 1640–49. In The Committee , a meeting of the Puritan Saints is interrupted with news of the celebrations. Butler and Hogarth together made the political atmosphere of this scene both humorous and easy for the general public of the time to understand.
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- Credit line
- Sara R. Shorey Endowment; purchased with funds provided by Phyllis Neiman and the Woman's Board in honor of Phyllis Neiman
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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