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Additional lettering reads: But he had a Club this Dragon to Drub, Or he had ne'er don't I warrant ye: - Dragon of Wantley.
The 7th state as described by Paulson, with "NB" engraved on the bear's club, the words "Dragon of Wantley" added below, etc.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints sold by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and mounted with a second print by Hogarth on bound sheet 455 x 625 mm.
A re-working of Hogarth's self-portrait of 1749 (Paulson 181); the artist has been replaced by a bear representing Charles Churchill wearing preaching bands and holding a tankard of beer in one paw and a knotty club in the other; the dog Trump is urinating on a copy of Churchill's "Epistle to Hogarth"; leaning on the palette is a framed satirical print showing Hogarth himself whipping a dancing bear (Churchill) and a monkey (John Wilkes) in front of a projected tomb for William Pitt from which a cannon fires at the dove of peace