Suppressed Plates Wood Engravings C Together With Other Curiosities Germane
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John Wilkes had started a paper called IVie NortJi Briton in opposition to The Briton, the organ of the Tory party of which Lord Bute was the leader. Hogarth had long enjoyed Bute's favour. He had also until now been on friendly terms with Wilkes and his henchman Charles Churchill, the poet. On September 7, 1762, taking sides with his patron, he published Jlie Times (Plate I. ). This so enraged Wilkes that he retaliated on the Saturday following, in the seventeenth number of The NortJi Briton, ...with a violent attack on Hogarth both as man and artist. In the May following Hogarth retorted by publishing a portrait of John Wilkes which, professing to be a likeness, cleverly exhibited his most repulsive characteristics. Wilkes being now on his trial for libel, Churchill came to the rescue with his savage and slashing Epistle to William Hogarth. This was published on August 1. BURUNGTON GATE AS IT APPEARKO PRIOR TO 1868. 110 SUPPRESSED PLATES With a promptitude astonishing in those days of tardy copper-plate engraving, Hogarth, by a clever expedient, retaliated within a month with his exceedingly venomous print of "The Bruiser.
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