An election entertainment. [graphic] / Plate I

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Title: An election entertainment. [graphic] / Plate I
Alternative Title: Scene in a tavern on election day
Creator: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: published 24th Febry. 1755, as the act directs.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: 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 ..."
Description: 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."
Sheet 431 x 552 mm.
Provenance: Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., August 1940; Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 433 x 567 mm, on sheet 460 x 624 mm.
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1755
Engravings England London 1755
Etchings England London 1755
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Children
Demonstrations
Eating & drinking
Gin
Intoxication
Musicians
Political elections
Politicians
Smoking
Taverns (Inns)
Subjects: Children
Demonstrations
Eating & drinking
Gin
Intoxication
Musicians
Political elections
Politicians
Smoking
Taverns (Inns)
England > 1755
England > London > 1755
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership

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