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. ". Date: 1763.
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