Frontispiece Portrait (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras). Dimensions: sheet (trimmed within plate): 4 1/2 x 2 13/16 in. (11.5 x 7.1 cm). Engraver: William Hogarth (British, London 1697-1764 London). Sitter: Said to portray Samuel Butler (British, baptized Strensham, Worcestershire 1613-1680 Covent Garden); Actual sitter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (French, Lille 1636-1699 London). Date: April 1726. Published as a frontispiece to Samuel Butler's Hudibras, this print is wrongly identified as a portrait of the author. It actually portrays the painter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer a
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Frontispiece Portrait (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras). Dimensions: sheet (trimmed within plate): 4 1/2 x 2 13/16 in. (11.5 x 7.1 cm). Engraver: William Hogarth (British, London 1697-1764 London). Sitter: Said to portray Samuel Butler (British, baptized Strensham, Worcestershire 1613-1680 Covent Garden); Actual sitter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (French, Lille 1636-1699 London). Date: April 1726. Published as a frontispiece to Samuel Butler's Hudibras, this print is wrongly identified as a portrait of the author. It actually portrays the painter Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer and derives from a 1715 mezzotint by George White based on a portrait by Sir George Kneller. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.