An election entertainment. [graphic] / Plate IHogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmakerpublished 24th Febry. 1755, as the act directs.engA dining room in a tavern is filled with drunken and rowdy men seated around a rectangular and a circular table that have been pushed together. More men and women are pushing through the doorway on the right. In the back of the room, a band of musicians play their instruments. Through the window demonstrators care signs with political messages: "Liberty and property" and "Marry and multiply in spite of the devil and the ..." In this state a cobweb has been introduced in the upper right corner of the window. The words "AND THE" in the sign on the street is imperfectly erased after "DEVIL".Title engraved above image.State from Paulson.The first plate of four of an election.Dedication engraved below design: To the Right Honourable Henry Fox, &c,&c,&c. This plate is humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient humble servt. Wm. Hogarth.Statement of responsibilty with heavily scored through word between "Painted and" and "engraved by Wm. Hogarth."Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: First impression. See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit. p.334 &c.On page 169 in volume 2.