File:TheBruiserByWilliamHogarth.jpg

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English: 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."
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Source Art and Architecture
Author William Hogarth (1697–1764)

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22:04, 17 February 2007 547 × 700 (160,619 bytes) w:en:Noroton (talk | contribs) ''The Bruiser'' By [[William Hogarth]] (created and printed in 1763) 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 direc

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