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- Title:
- The Election, Plate I, An Election Entertainment
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1755
- Materials & Techniques:
- Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 17 1/4 × 22 1/4 inches (43.8 × 56.5 cm), Image: 15 3/4 × 21 3/8 inches (40 × 54.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered above image, upper center: "AN ELECTION ENTERTAINMENT Plate I"; inside image, center left: "LIBERTY | AND | LOYALTY"; center: "SPEAK AND HAVE"; center right: "MARRY AND MULTIPLY IN | SPITE OF THE | DEVIL"; center right: "LIBERTY | AND | Property"; center right: "NO | JEWS"; center left: "Sir Commodity | Tavern | -"; center left: "Champagne"; center right: "Burgundy"; center left: "April 1 1754 | I promise to Pay to Abel | Squat the Sum of Fifty | pounds Six Months after | date Value R- -erved | Rich- Slim"; center right: "PRO PATRIA"; center right: "GIN"; center right: "Sure Votes | Doubtfull"; lower right: "Give us our | Eleven | Days"; lower right: "Act against Bribery and Cor-"; lower right: "Kirtons | Best"; below image, lower left: "Painted and [xxx] Engraved by Wm. Hogarth."; lower right: "Published 24th Febry. 1755, as the Act direct. --"; lower center: "To the Right Honourable Henry Fox, &c. &c. &c.- This plate is humbly Inscrib'd by his most Obedient Humble Servt. | Wm. Hogarth"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1448
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42053
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Douglas Fordham, British art and the Seven Years' War, allegiance and autonomy , University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2010, pp. 83-91, fig. 26, N72.P6 F66 2010 (YCBA) [YCBA]