The Bruiser, C. Churchill ... in the Character of a Russian Hercules ..., 1763By William Hogarth

The Bruiser C Churchill in the character of a Russian Hercules The poet Charles Churchill is depicted as a bear in a clerical collar with a mug of beer in one a hand and a club in the other a slovenly clergyman who drinks and writes brutal satires A dog sits in front of him with its front paws resting on a page inscribed An epistle to Hogarth by C Churchill Hogarth made the engraving in retaliation for a satirical attack made on him by Churchill in the epistle itself in retaliation for a previous satirical engraving Hogarth had made of the politician John Wilkes a friend of Churchills