In the second state of this Plate are a few variations. Overall, the scene emphasizes political bribery and mercenary motivations of the voting populace. A poor old Lady is overset by a sow and her litter of pigs. The venerable Musician enjoys his own music, and his resolution to espouse neutrality, not knowing which of the Parties is the best entitled to his suffrage. (42.4 x 54.7 cm) Classification: Prints An Election Entertainment (HD download). Regardless of this circumstance, two little Chimney-sweepers on the gate-post are diverting themselves, by placing a pair of gingerbread spectacles on a Death's head. Published in: Catalogue entry. The Porter has brought a quantity of printed bills to be dispersed, intimating that Punch's Theatre is opened, and the company of the worthy Electors humbly requested, &c. Two hungry Countrymen in the Royal Oak are displaying their extraordinary talents in eating, one of them voraciously devouring a fowl, and the other, committing most unmerciful outrages on a round of beef. As the Act directs.|To His Excellency Sr. Charles Hanbury Williams Embassador to the Court of RUSSIA. By the direction upon a Letter, delivered with a bended knee, we may rationally suppose this man to be a descendant of the ancient family of Party Tools. Members of both parties offer the man in the center foreground bribes and the painted sign above him satirizes a “punch candidate” who is throwing out bribes to his constituents. The Constable, fatigued by double duty, is taking a nap. "Dead!" William Hogarth & Charles Grignion - Canvassing for Votes (Four Prints of an Election, Plate 2): Hogarth's second scene takes political corruption out of doors. The corruption of the proceedings, the power of the mob and the ultimate absurdity of the election (a Whig parliament immediately overruling the Tory victory) were among Hogarth's concerns in the series. Image released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported), T01796 [from] An Election 1755–8 [T01796-T01797], Two plates from a series of four, etching and engraving, various sizes "Kirton's best" has its peculiar significance. This print features a wide cast of people from various backgrounds at a Whig election entertainment (Burke and Caldwell n. 237). Their placement around the table is suggestive of the last supper, with the diners all to one side, surrounded by musicians, overturned tables, and barrels of beer. Le Brun, in his Battle of the Granicus, has represented an Eagle hovering over the laureled helmet of Alexander. In a newspaper announcement of February 1757 Hogarth attributes the delay to ‘the Difficulties he has met with to procure able Hands to engrave the Plates’. The inn sign suggests the money comes from appropriated public funds. The print based on the first of the pictures was issued in February 1755, but the remaining three were not issued until early in 1758, despite the dates given in their publication lines. A party called Jacobites, have mangled the Portrait of King William. His own difficulty with the first plate ‘An Election Entertainment’ had persuaded him to look elsewhere for the engraving of the others: to Grignion for the second (T01796) and to collaboration with F.M. He was hurt by Hogarth's stroke of satire. Behind him is another Freeholder brought almost dying from his bed. On the margins, women and black slaves look on. A Man of the Law, in the act of examining the votes, having received a blow, falls prostrate on the floor. In the first impression also, the Butcher, who is pouring gin on the broken head of another man, has For our Country on his cockade; in the second we find Pro Patria in its stead. The Veteran laying his wooden stump upon the book, the Clerk bursts into an immoderate fit of laughter, which is not a little increased by two Counsellors disputing the legality of the oath, the Statute saying the "right hand" (not the stump) should be laid upon the book. The escutcheon, with the Electors' arms, A chevron Sable, between three guineas Or, with a crest of a gaping mouth, and the motto, Speak and Have, is pertinent and appropriate. "Why," says one of the Clerks, "you have brought us here a dead man!" The original Pictures are still in the possession of Mrs Garrick at Hampton. By the shackle on this man's leg, and the paper in his pocket with the title of "The Sixth Letter to the People of England," we know him to be Dr. Shebbeare, and that he came into disgrace for being the author of that Letter. de la Cave and Aviline for the third ‘The Polling’, and fourth (T01797) respectively. The Doctor frequently said in a coffee-house, that he would have a pillory or a pension; and he was gratified with both — with the former by Lord Mansfield, and with the latter by Lord Bute. An Election I: An Election Entertainment by William Hogarth. The successful Member is now exhibited in triumph. In the tobacco-tray we perceive a paper of Kirton's best, and a slip of paper torn from an Act against Bribery and Corruption. The innkeeper's wife counts the profit on the entertainment while gifts are offered to female relatives of voters, seeking their influence. Feb.ry 1757. He was the youngest son of the Archbishop, who bequeathed to him an ample fortune. The Militia Bill, appearing out of the pocket of the maimed Voter, was added after the first impression. Medium: Etching and engraving; state six of eight. This Print was engraved by Hogarth and Le Cade. Britannia's Chariot breaks down, while the Coachman and Footman are playing cards on the top.". A Female Player on a violin, and a pompous performer on the bass viol, bear a part in the melodious concert. Plate I. In the top left, a flag hangs limply; it reads: “Liberty and Loyalty.” To the right of the flag, a posh-looking woman casts her eyes downward as men attempt to fondle her and give her gifts. Once indeed, in the Third Election Print, he condescended to use an allegorical personage, and was not happy in it. Many of the multitude are hastening to a Female Warbler, chanting a libellous attack on one of the Candidates, who is represented suspended to a gibbet on the top of the ballad. There is a pile of hats, tossed nonchalantly in the bottom left corner. In this Plate Hogarth assured Dr. Morell that there is but one intended for a real Portrait; and that is the Irish Gentleman (Sir John Parnell, nephew to the Poet, and remarkable for a very fat nose), who is diverting the company by a face drawn with a burnt cork upon the back of his hand, while he is supposed to be singing "An old woman clothed in grey." A set of 4 high quality prints produced by Kingfisher. While there is a notable intermixing of gentleman and commoner alike (Burke and Caldwell n 237), the focal points of the print are the overfed man at right being bled by a surgeon (Burke and Caldwell n. 237) and the man being forced into an embrace with a woman. Catalogue entry. Two plates from a series of four, etching and engraving, various sizes Transferred from the reference collection 1973 PROVENANCE Unknown Hogarth's four ‘Election’ pictures, now in Sir John Soane's Museum, were begun around 1754 and completed in 1755 and partly took as their theme the Oxfordshire election of that year. It was, however, destroyed by a riotous mob, because it belonged to one of the opposite Party. This Gentleman (then an eminent Attorney) begged it as a favour, declaring, at the same time, he was so generally known, that the introduction of his face would be of service to our Artist in the sale of his Prints at Dublin. Hogarth’s first engraving, The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver. The second plate (of which this is the sixth state) centres on a farmer who is being offered bribes by both political parties. To accelerate this business, two assistants exert their strength in pulling a rope which is tied round the beam. Dr. Cosseret; but, as it is very difficult to delineate him in colours sufficiently strong and lively, it is fortunate for us and the Doctor, that Hogarth has undertaken that task.". Consulté le 10/10/2020. T01796 [from] An Election 1755–8 [T01796-T01797] .

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