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- Title:
- Hudibras Vanquish'd by Trulla (no.5)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Twelve Large Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras
- Date:
- 1726
- Materials & Techniques:
- Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches (26.7 × 34.3 cm), Image: 9 1/4 × 13 1/4 inches (23.5 × 33.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered above image, upper right: "5"; inside image, lower right: "W. Hogarth Inv:t et Sculp"; below image, lower center: "Hudibras, | vanquish'd by | Trulla."; lower center: "Mean while the other Champion, Yerst | In hurry of the Fight disperst, | Arriv'd, when Trulla won the Day, | To share i' th' Honour and the Prey, | And out of Hudibras his Hide, | With Vengeance to be satsfy'd; -- | But Trulla thrust her Self between, | And striding o'er his back agen, | She brandish'd o'er her head his Sword, | And vow'd they should not break her Word; | Sh' had giv'n him Quarter, and her Blood | Or theirs should make that Quarter good. | In dungeon deep Crowdero cast, | By Hudibras, as yet lay fast: | Him she resolv'd that Hudibras | Should ransom, and supply his place,-- | This stopt their Fury, and the Basting | Which towards Hudibras was hasting | They thought it was but just and right, | That what she had atchiev'd in fight | She should dispose of how She pleas'd: | Crowdero ought to be releas'd: -- | Him they release from Durance base, | Restor'd t' his Fiddle, and his Case."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1995.29.51
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4793
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