Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 9 & 10 vanity fair prints Major-General Thomas Charles Pleydell Calley

Major-General Thomas Charles Pleydell Calley (28 January 1856 – 14 February 1932) was a British military officer and Liberal Unionist politician

1st Baron Brampton (14 September 1817 – 6 October 1907)

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(1854 - 1914) began his career as an engineer

He failed to convince the courts

Hogarth's "Hudibras" - Plates 9 & 10 vanity fair prints Major-General Thomas Charles Pleydell CalleyThis is a large 18th century antique engraving of Samuel Butler's mock herioic narrative poem "Hudibras" by William Hogarth, consisting of "The Committee" (Plate 9) and "Triumphant" (Plate 10). In 1725, William Hogarth was commissioned by Philip Overton and John Cooper to engrave "twelve Historical and most Diverting Prints, taken from the celebrated Poem of Hudibras (the Don Quixot of this Nation)". These plates then passed to Robert Sayer