A country inn yard at the time of an election [graphic]

Description

Title: A country inn yard at the time of an election [graphic]
Alternative Title: Stage-coach
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1747 and 1800]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Copy of scene in the "Old Angle In", an inn with the sign of an angel that gives the proprietor as 'Toms. Bates', and a stop for coaches on the road to London; in foreground a large woman enters a coach, the man to her left helps her in with a hand on her round backside, a man with a protruding belly stands waiting, behind him a boy holds out a hat for tips; to the left a refreshment seller yells out advertising her goods, two drunken guests lean out from a window above with a pipe and a horn, and two figures embrace in the doorway below, the watchdog lies asleep in his kennel on the right; a crowd of election campaigners at the far end of the inn."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Copy in reverse of the Hogarth print with the Paulson title: The stage coach, or, The country inn yard. Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 167.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,2.145.
"From an unidentified series of copies after Hogarth's prints. The prints in this series are lettered with title, 'Invented & Painted by Wm. Hogarth' and plate number. For the full list of the plates, see BM Satires 3051"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Cc,2.153.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"No. 4"--Upper right corner.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; January 2021.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17.2 x 28 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English