An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.

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<p>An adaptation of an engraving by Hogarth illustrating an episode in Samuel Butler's Hudibras with the legend "Hudibras beats Sidrophel and his man Whacum"</p>

An explosion in a laboratory. Oil painting after W. Hogarth.

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