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Four Prints of an Election: An Election Entertainment
February 1755
William Hogarth (English, 1697-1764)
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Plate I

A black and white print of a chaotic group of figures gathered around two dining tables in a room. In the foreground, a boy pours liquid from a small barrel into a container and a man pours liquid from a bottle onto a man's wounded head
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  • Artist Name: William Hogarth (English, 1697-1764)
  • Title: Four Prints of an Election: An Election Entertainment
  • Date: February 1755
  • Medium: Ink on paper
  • Dimensions: 15-7/8 x 21-3/16 in. (40.3 x 53.8 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
  • Accession Number: M.1979.67.66.G
  • Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation

Object Information

(Sale, 21 March 1968, New York, Sotheby’s, lot 145, to);
Norton Simon, donated 1979 to;
Norton Simon Art Foundation

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