Image: TheBruiserByWilliamHogarth
Description: The Bruiser, Engraving and etching Height: 37.4 cm (cut); Width: 27.8 cm (cut) A cartoon created in opposition to poet Charles Churchill after Churchill had attacked Hogarth for a cartoon directed against Churchill's friend, John Wilkes According to the Art and Architecture Web site: "Printed, lower margin, recto, THE BRUISER, C. CHURCHILL (once the Rev d!) In the Character of a Russian Hercules, Regaling // himself after having Kill'd the Monster Caricaturea that so sorely Gall'd his Virtuous friend of the Heaven born WILKES! // But he had a Club this Dragon to Drub, O'er he had ne'er don't I warrant ye - Dragon of Wantley // Designed and Engraved by Wm Hogarth Price 1s 6d n Publish'd according to act of Parliament August 1.1763."
Title: TheBruiserByWilliamHogarth
Credit: Art and Architecture
Author: William Hogarth (1697–1764)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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