The Committee, plate ten from Hudibras
<p>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 <em>Hudibras</em> 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 <em>The Committee</em>, 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.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1725
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.9 × 33.6 cm (9 7/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Plate: 27 × 35.2 cm (10 11/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Primary support: 27.1 × 35.5 cm (10 11/16 × 14 in.); Secondary support: 36.4 × 47.8 cm (14 3/8 × 18 7/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- William Hogarth
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William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Familiarity with his work is so widespread that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".
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- William Hogarth
- Year
- 1725
- Dimensions
- Image: 23.9 × 33.6 cm (9 7/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Plate: 27 × 35.2 cm (10 11/16 × 13 7/8 in.); Primary support: 27.1 × 35.5 cm (10 11/16 × 14 in.); Secondary support: 36.4 × 47.8 cm (14 3/8 × 18 7/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1725-133884
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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- verified