Frontispiece Portrait (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras) 1726

This engraving by William Hogarth, created in 1726, is a portrait of Samuel Butler, an English poet and satirist. The work is one of seventeen small illustrations for Butler’s *Hudibras*, a mock-heroic poem. The portrait depicts Butler in a three-quarter view, wearing a cap and a simple jacket. It is a fine example of Hogarth's early style, characterized by a meticulous attention to detail and a keen observation of human nature. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.