Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 9 & 10 vanity fair prints He failed to convince the

He failed to convince the courts

Lord Justice Romer

Major-General Thomas Charles Pleydell Calley (28 January 1856 – 14 February 1932) was a British military officer and Liberal Unionist politician

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Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 9 & 10 vanity fair prints He failed to convince theThis is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth, consisting of "The Committee" (Plate 9) and "Triumphant" (Plate 10). In 1725, William Hogarth was commissioned by Philip Overton and John Cooper to engrave "twelve Historical and most Diverting Prints, taken from the celebrated Poem of Hudibras (the Don Quixot of this Nation)". These plates then passed to Robert Sayer