Monument with a portrait of Samuel Butler; a youth sculpts a relief as a satyr holds Butler's book Hudibras towards him while Britannia looks at her reflection in a mirror. Engraving by William Hogarth.

William Hogarth · 1768

Lettering: Frontispiece and its explanation. The basso releivo, on the pedestal, represents the general design of Mr Butler, in his incomparable <po>em of Hudibras, viz Butler's genious in a car, lashing around Mount Parnassus, in the persons of Hudibras, &, Ralpho, Rebellion, Hypocrisy, and Ignorance, the reigning vices of his time. W. Hogarth inven & sculp.