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

Edition:

[State 2].

Published/Created:

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

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 433 x 567 mm, on sheet 460 x 624 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 devised by cataloger.
Series title and number engraved above image.
State from Paulson.
Dedication etched below image: "To the Right Honourable Henry Fox, &c,&c,&c. This plate is humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient humble servt. Wm. Hogarth."
Sotheby's, F.E. Sotheby Sale, lot 215 (Hogarth's works) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 21 Nov. 1955; Acquisition no.: 955-11-21-97. 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 ..."

Variant Titles:

Scene in a tavern on election day
An election entertainment ; plate 1
An election entertainment. Plate 1.

Associated Names:

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

Topics:

Children
Demonstrations
Eating & drinking
Gin
Intoxication
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Musicians
Political elections
Politicians
Smoking
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909
Taverns (Inns)

Language:

English

Genre:

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 97++ Box 315

Orbis Record:

9884256

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22277

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030594

PID:

digcoll:2808332