Chairing the members. Plate 4 [graphic] / engrav'd by W. Hogarth & F. Aviline [sic].
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Description
- Title
- Chairing the members. Plate 4 [graphic] / engrav'd by W. Hogarth & F. Aviline [sic].
- Creator
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
- Contributor
- Aveline, François Antoine, 1718-1762?
- Published / Created
- published 1st Janry., 1758, as the act directs
- Publication Place
- [London]
- Publisher
- [Wm. Hogarth]
- Abstract
-
"Scene in a country town with two newly-elected members of parliament (one a representation of George Bubb Doddington, the other visible only as a shadow on a distant wall) carried shoulder-high along the street, led by a blind and ragged fiddler and surrounded by a chaotic and disreputable crowd; two chimney boys sit on the church wall, a dancing-bear interferes with a donkey's load and is about to be clubbed by the driver, the one-legged bear-leader (dressed in sailor's clothes) is engaged in a fight with a man swinging a flail, a rifle slung over a monkey's shoulder discharges to the horror of a black serving woman, a sow and her piglets up-end a woman as they charge across the street, a soldier stripped to the waist for a boxing bout is taking tobacco from a wrapper; to right, dishes of food are being carried into an elegant house where victory is being celebrated."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description
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Dedication etched below image: To the Honble. George Hay, one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, &c,&c. This plate is most humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient, humble servant, Willm. Hogarth.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Fourth and final print in a series: Four prints of an election.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale
Sheet trimmed to plate mark: 431 x 555 mm.
State from Paulson.
State with the word "NDINTUR" added to the paper hanging from the upper window on the right. with other design enhancements. See Paulson.
Title engraved above image. - Extent
- 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 43.6 x 56 cm, on sheet 47.1 x 62 cm
- Edition
- [State 3].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Kinnaird 42K Box 315
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- still image
- Genre
-
Annotations (Provenance) -- 18th century
Engravings -- England -- London -- 1758
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1758
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1758 - Resource Type
- Prints & Photographs
- Subject (Geographic)
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1714-1760 -- Caricatures and cartoons
- Subject (Name)
- Aveline, François Antoine, 1718-1762?
- Subject (Topic)
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Bears
Blacks
Chimney sweeps
Donkeys
Fighting
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Monkeys
Peg legs
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Political elections
Riots
Servants
Sotheby, Frederick E
Steevens, George, 1736-1800
Street musicians
Swine
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9884545
- Object ID (OID)
- 16030650
- More Information
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3318