Title: Frontispiece and Its Explanation (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 1)
Object type: Print
Date: 1725–68
Artist:  William Hogarth 
Artist bio: British, London 1697–1764 London
Artist nationality: British
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four
Dimensions: plate: 10 7/16 x 13 7/8 in. (26.5 x 35.2 cm)
sheet: 11 7/16 x 14 11/16 in. (29.1 x 37.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Shields, term: Men, term: Portraits, term: Women