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Canvassing for Votes, plate 2 from the series Canvassing for Votes: Four Prints of an Election
Canvassing for Votes, plate 2 from the series Canvassing for Votes: Four Prints of an Election

Canvassing for Votes, plate 2 from the series Canvassing for Votes: Four Prints of an Election

Artist/Maker (English, 1697–1764)
Date1757
MediumEtching and engraving
DimensionsImage: 17 5/16 × 22 in. (44 × 55.9 cm)
Sheet: 18 7/8 × 24 7/8 in. (48 × 63.2 cm)
Credit LineAnnie A. Wager Bequest
PortfolioCanvassing for Votes: Four Prints of an Election
Object number1975.239
Status
Not on view
More Information
At the center, a farmer is being offered bribes of coins and dinner invitations by the hosts of the two competing inns (and political parties). The inn at the near right, The Royal Oak, is a Tory establishment; the anti-government show cloth hung across the inn sign depicts the current ministry as a Punch and Judy spectacle of bribery.
Exhibition History
William Hogarth: Master of Graphic Social Satire
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (November 17, 1978 - December 17, 1978 )
'A more new way of proceeding': Representation and Narrative in the Art of William Hogarth
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 23, 1995 - May 29, 1995 )
Wit and Wisdom: Political and Social Satire in the Prints of Hogarth, Goya, and Daumier
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 27, 2022 - December 23, 2022 )
Collections
  • European
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