An election entertainment. Plate I [graphic] / painted and the whole engraved by Wm. Hogarth.
- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker.
- Edition:
- [State 3].
- 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.
- 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." - 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 ..." In this state a cobweb has been introduced in the upper right corner of the window. The words "AND THE" in the sign on the street is imperfectly erased after "DEVIL".
- Topics:
- Children.
Demonstrations.
Eating & drinking.
Gin.
Intoxication.
Musicians.
Political elections.
Politicians.
Smoking.
Taverns (Inns) - Topics:
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1714-1760--Caricatures and cartoons.
- Topics:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.--CtY-LW
Engravings--England--London--1755.
Etchings--England--London--1755.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1755. - Format:
- Image
- 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:
- 75
H67
800 v.2
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) - Orbis Record:
- 12820537
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr26231
- Citation:
- 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 - OID:
- 16194130
- PID:
- digcoll:4048707
