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Engraving of a chaotic street crowd with men fighting around a sedan chair, pigs, a donkey, and onlookers at windows.

Chairing the Members, Plate IV: Four Prints of an Election

January 1, 1758

Engraved frontispiece with an oval portrait of Samuel Butler above an allegorical bas relief of satyrs, a chariot, and Britan

The Frontispiece and Its Explanation (Plate 1: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

1725-30 (?)

Engraving of two mounted riders on a road beside a brick house, with a dog, a market woman and a man with a barrel.

Sir Hudibras His Passing Worth the Manner How He Sallyed Forth (Plate 2: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

1725-30 (?)

Engraving of a mounted knight with a pistol facing a crowd of musicians, a fiddler, and a chained bear beneath a tree.

The Adventure of the Bear and the Fiddle (Plate 3: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

1725-30 (?)

Engraving of a mounted knight, a squire, and a man climbing a wall to hang a fiddle, with onlookers and verse captions below.

Hudibras Triumphant (Plate 4: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

1725-30 (?)

Etching of a woman with a raised sword among armed men outside buildings, with a fallen man at her feet and a bridge at left.

Hudibras Vanquish'd and Protected by Trulla (Plate 5: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

1725-30 (?)

Engraving of a man in wooden stocks in a yard, watched by a crowd including a woman in a black cloak.

Hudibras in Tribulation (Plate 6: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

1725-30 (?)

Engraving of a noisy street procession with riders, a crowd, a brick house and a tavern balcony, with verse below.

Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington (Plate 7: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

1725-30 (?)

Engraved scene of two men at a table with astrological charts, a skeleton, hanging creatures and a cat, with verse captions b

Hudibras Beats Sidrophel and His Man Wacum (Plate 8: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

1725-30 (?)

Engraving of a devilish figure with a sword over a seated bearded man, a woman in a doorway, and a cloaked figure in an inter

Hudibras Catechized (Plate 9: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

1725-30 (?)

Engraving of men seated at a table in a room with hanging hats, with verse text below, by William Hogarth.

The Committee (Plate 10: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

1725-30 (?)

Engraved street scene of a crowd burning effigies at Temple Bar, with onlookers on a balcony and verse printed below.

Burning the Rumps at Temple Bar (Plate 11: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

1725-30 (?)

Engraving of a knight consulting a lawyer in a book-lined office, with clerks writing and dogs on the floor.

Hudibras and the Lawyer (Plate 12: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

1725-30 (?)

Engraved theatre benefit ticket showing four figures before a brick wall, with the banner 'For the Benefit of M. Walker'.

Benefit Ticket for Walker

ca. 1735

Etched theatre benefit ticket showing four men walking a street, framed by columns, cherubs and a banner reading For the Bene

Benefit Ticket for Joe Miller

1790s

Engraving of a rowdy crowd with lanterns and sticks in a dim interior, a woman seated on the floor by a fireplace.

The Frolick (The Search Light)

1790-1810

Engraving of the Pool of Bethesda: a robed figure gestures to sick people by an arcade while an angel hovers above.

The Pool of Bethesda (St. John, Chapter 5)

February 24,1772

Engraved key showing numbered costumed performers and seated audience in an elegant interior, with printed names below.

Key with List of Performers to: The Indian Emperor, or, The Conquest of Mexico, Act 4, scene 4

February 1, 1791

Pen drawing of a crowded fashionable interior with seated figures, framed paintings, an arched alcove, and toys on the floor.

Marriage A-la-Mode, plate IV (reverse copy)

18th-19th century

Engraving of The Good Samaritan: a turbaned man bandages a wounded man beside a white horse and dog in a rocky landscape.

The Good Samaritan (St. Luke, Chap. 10, verse 30)

February 24,1772

Engraved key showing numbered performers and audience in a theatre scene from The Beggar's Opera, with printed names below.

Key with List of Performers and Audience to: The Beggars Opera

July 1, 1790