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Canvassing for Votes Plate II   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: William Hogarth

Print made by: Charles Grignion
Title
Canvassing for Votes Plate II
Description
English: A rural scene with three inns: "The Portobello" (celebrating the naval victory of 1739 in contrast with the recent loss of Minorca), outside which two veterans sit reminiscing; "The Excise Office" (the Whig stronghold, its name alluding to Walpole's Excise Bill of 1733) with the sign of the Crown and a rioting crowd; and "The Royal Oak" (recalling Tory support for the Stuart monarchy), its sign partly obscured by the banner of "Punch Candidate for Guzzledown" in which the Treasury is being emptied of money that the candidate throws at voters; in the centre, a young country gentleman is being bribed by agents of both parties, while, to right, a portly candidate buys trinkets from a Jewish pedlar for two young ladies on the balcony of "The Royal Oak"; the landlady counts her bribe under the watchful eye of a soldier while she leans against a carved British lion about to devour the fleur-de-lis of France. Published state. 1757
Etching and engraving
Depicted people Associated with: Sir Charles Hanbury Williams
Date 1757
date QS:P571,+1757-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 438 millimetres
Width: 557 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
S,2.131
Notes After the painting in Sir John Soane's Museum. This print has several proofs; impressions of each of the six known states are in the BM.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_S-2-131
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