An election entertainment Plate I
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 dem...
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| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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[London] :
[Wm. Hogarth],
published 24th Febry. 1755, as the act directs
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| Edition: | [State 3] |
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| Summary: | 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" |
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| Item Description: | 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 State from Paulson Statement of responsibilty with heavily scored through word between "Painted and" and "engraved by Wm. Hogarth." The first plate of four of an election This Yale-originated record is shareable under Creative Commons license CC0 Title engraved above image |
| Physical Description: | 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 435 x 558 mm, on sheet 471 x 611 mm |