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1972-409,107, Print
An Election Entertainment, Plate I
1972-409,107, Print

An Election Entertainment, Plate I

Dateca. 1822
Artist/Maker William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
OriginEngland, London
MediumEtching and line engraving on laid paper
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1972-409,107
DescriptionUpper margin reads: "AN ELECTION ENTERTAINMENT Plate I"
Lower margin reads: "Painted and [scratched out] Engraved by W.m Hogarth./ Published 24.th Feb.ry 1755, as the Act directs./ TO the Right Honourable Henry Fox, &c. &c. &c. ~ This Plate is humbly Inscrib'd - his msot Obedient Humble Serv.t W.m Hogarth./
Label TextHogarth's copperplates were re-used after his death by his widow, Jane until her death in 1789. They were sold to the print publishers John and Josiah Boydell who published until the Boydell sale in 1818. In 1822, James Heath [THIS EDITION] was in possession of the plates and published at least four bound editions of the plates. For more, see Ronald Paulson, Hogarth's Graphic Works, Third Revised Edition (London: Print Room, 1989), pp. 20-21.