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An Election Entertainment Plate I   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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An Election Entertainment Plate I
Description
English: A feast given by two candidates in an election for parliament; two large tables in a panelled interior (probably intended as a 17th-century inn) surrounded by an assembly of drunken citizens, including a fat and toothless woman who embraces the younger of the candidates, a man with scratches on his face who is losing his wig and lets smoke from his pipe blow into the other candidate's eye, a clergyman who removes his wig to wipe his sweating head, a group of musicians, and a fat man who is being bled by a barber-surgeon to relieve him of the effects of a surfeit of oysters; in the centre foreground, a butcher pours gin on the scalp-wound of a brawler with a banner inscribed "Give us our Eleven Days" (alluding to the revision of the calendar in 1752); to right, the candidates' agent falls backwards having been hit by a brick thrown through the window by one of the crowd demonstrating against the Marriage Act and the Jew Bill (both 1753). 1755
Etching and engraving
Depicted people Associated with: Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland
Date 1755
date QS:P571,+1755-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 425 millimetres
Width: 548 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
Cc,2.182
Notes

After the painting in Sir John Soane's Museum. The plate was extensively reworked within the period 1755 to 1758, and is known in eight states, the BM has impressions of each; Hogarth was apparently unhappy with the strong contrasts and (from Paulson's fourth state) employed another engraver to help reduce them, but, not satisfied with the results, attempted to restore some of the original appearance in later states.

This state: there are alterations in the lettering of the flag outside the window: 'the devil and the' altered to 'the/and the devil', also a cobweb in the upper right corner of this window.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Cc-2-182
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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