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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- published 24th Febry. 1755, as the act directs.
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 37K Box 310
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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 ..."
- Alternative Title:
- Scene in a tavern on election day
- 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.", and Sheet 431 x 552 mm.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Children, Demonstrations, Eating & drinking, Gin, Intoxication, Musicians, Political elections, Politicians, Smoking, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An election entertainment. [graphic] / Plate I