Burning the Rumps at Temple Barr
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1726
Artist: William Hogarth FRSA (British, 1697 - 1764)
Dimensions:
Sheet: 365 × 570 mm (36.5 × 57 cm)
Medium: paper, ink
Object number: P.2018.42.M
DescriptionPlate XI after William Hogarth illustration (part of twelve illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras)
a riotous scene in the street beside Temple Bar, the western boundary of the City of London, with the mob hanging and burning representations of members of the Rump Parliament; an effigy of Hudibras himself is carried on a pole.
(See BM S,2.16)
a riotous scene in the street beside Temple Bar, the western boundary of the City of London, with the mob hanging and burning representations of members of the Rump Parliament; an effigy of Hudibras himself is carried on a pole.
(See BM S,2.16)
