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An Election Entertainment: Four Prints of an Election, Plate 1
1755
30.1002
Not currently on view
Artwork Details
15-3/4 x 21-1/4 in. (image) 17-1/4 x 23 in. (sheet)
Mark DescriptionInscribed at underside: To the Right Honourable Henry Fox--This Plate is Hunbly Inscribed by his most Obedient Humble Servant Wm. Hogarth.
Accession NumberGift of William George Sullivan
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteWilliam George Sullivan; given to the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1930.
Inspired by the Oxfordshire election of 1754, Hogarth’s series skewers the ploys of politicians to buy popular support. Two Whig candidates are seated at the far left and must suffer the overly fond attentions of their party regulars, who have indulged themselves in food and drink at the candidates’ expense. Campaign ribbons and petty bribes, such as pipes and tobacco, are being readied for the campaign. The party secretary calculates “Sure” and “Doubtful” votes as he is struck by a brick tossed through the window by the opposition party parading outside.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
William Hogarth: The Painter of Comic History
Indianapolis Museum of Art
August 31, 2012 - August 4, 2013
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