An Election Entertainment, Plate 1, 1757 or 1758
Print
1755 (made)
1755 (made)
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| Place of origin |
General Description: An Election Entertainment Plate 1 (RD.P.198, R.P.198, 8th state). British. Lettered with title, captions and Painted and [words "the Whole" obliterated] Engraved by Wm. Hogarth. / Published 24th [altered from 14th] Febry.. 1755, as the Act directs./ To the Right Honourable Henry Fox, &c. &c. &c. This Plate is humbly Inscrib'd by his most Obedient Humble Servt.. Wm.. Hogarth. Inscribed in pencil in a later hand fourth state.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | An Election Entertainment, Plate 1, 1757 or 1758 |
| Materials and techniques | Etching and engraving |
| Brief description | 'An Election Entertainment' by William Hogarth, 1755 |
| Physical description | General Description: An Election Entertainment Plate 1 (RD.P.198, R.P.198, 8th state). British. Lettered with title, captions and Painted and [words "the Whole" obliterated] Engraved by Wm. Hogarth. / Published 24th [altered from 14th] Febry.. 1755, as the Act directs./ To the Right Honourable Henry Fox, &c. &c. &c. This Plate is humbly Inscrib'd by his most Obedient Humble Servt.. Wm.. Hogarth. Inscribed in pencil in a later hand fourth state. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Frank A. Gibson |
| Object history | Notes: The painting to which this print corresponds, is in the Sir John Soane Museum, London. |
| Bibliographic reference | R.P.= Paulson, Ronald Hogarth's Graphic Works, Revised Edition, New Haven and London, 1970 RD.P.= Paulson, Ronald Hogarth's Graphic Works, Third Revised Edition, London, 1989 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.1292-1990 |
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| Record created | February 18, 2009 |
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