An election entertainment. Plate I [graphic] / painted and engraved by Wm. Hogarth.

Edition:

[State 8].

Published/Created:

[London]
[Wm. Hogarth]
published 24th Febry. 1755, as the act directs

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 435 x 558 mm, on sheet 471 x 611 mm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3285
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 198

Notes:

Title engraved above image.
State from Paulson.
The first plate of four of an election.
Dedication engraved below design: To the Right Honourable Henry Fox, &c,&c,&c. This plate is humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient humble servt. Wm. Hogarth.
Statement of responsibilty with heavily scored through word between "Painted and" and "engraved by Wm. Hogarth."
Sotheby's, F.E. Sotheby Sale, lot 215 (Hogarth's works) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 21 Nov. 1955; Acquisition no.: 955-11-21-39. Purchased as a bound collection of 97 prints with Sotheby bookplate; disbound January 1984.
Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.

Abstract:

A dining room in a tavern is filled with drunken and rowdy men seated around a rectangular and a circular table that have been pushed together. More men and women are pushing through the doorway on the right. In the back of the room, a band of musicians play their instruments. Through the window demonstrators care signs with political messages: "Liberty and property" and "Marry and multiply in spite of the devil and the ..." State with hatching lines throughout strengthened. The space where "the whole" was is in the inscription is now crossed out with lines. Dark areas on the surface of the overturned table are removed.

Associated Names:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Children
Demonstrations
Eating & drinking
Gin
Intoxication
Musicians
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Political elections
Politicians
Smoking
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909
Steevens, George, 1736-1800
Taverns (Inns)

Topics:

Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1714-1760 -- Caricatures and cartoons

Language:

English

Genre:

Annotations (Provenance) -- 18th century
Engravings -- England -- London -- 1755
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1755
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1755

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Sotheby 39++ Box 310

Orbis Record:

9884249

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22262

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030579

PID:

digcoll:2808320