[A group of figures from "Four prints of an election. Plate I." An election entertainment. L] [graphic].

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Title: [A group of figures from "Four prints of an election. Plate I." An election entertainment. L] [graphic].
Creator: Riepenhausen, Ernst Ludwig, 1765-1840
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1787]
Publication Place: Göttingen
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Plate lettered in the top center 'L': Reverse copies of details of three men after characters around the table on the right in Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered; 1. A distraught looking man with his wig askew. 2, 3. A doctor wipes the forehead of a man seated before him, eyes closed, appparently ill from eating oysters (as seen in the Hogarth original).
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Printmaker and date from other prints in the series in the British Museum online catalogue.
Plates from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Maggs; December 1963;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 10.0 x 6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) Germany 1787
Etchings Germany 1787
Material: etching ;
Subject (Name): Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic): Physicians
Political elections
Wigs
Taverns (Inns)
Subjects: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Physicians
Political elections
Wigs
Taverns (Inns)
Germany > 1787

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