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T01797 [from] An Election 1755–8 [T01796-T01797]
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. 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. 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… (read more)
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