Burning the Rumps at Temple Bar, plate eleven from Hudibras

Museum record 184616: Burning the Rumps at Temple Bar, plate eleven from Hudibras by William Hogarth. A verified entry point for discovery.

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William Hogarth illustrated the story of a sad-sack adventurer named Hudibras in twelve engravings. His source was Samuel Butler’s satirical, mock-heroic poem written in the vein of Cervantes and Rabelais. Ridiculing the puritan party’s attempts to overthrow the British monarchy during the Great Civil War of 1640, Butler’s poem exposes the hypocrisy and pretensions of the Presbyterians, Independents, and Zealots who hoped to establish themselves as leaders. Here, Hudibras appears in this large crowd scen…