The poll
Item Information
- Title:
- The poll
- Description:
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The scene is still the polling-booth, Covent Garden ; the canvassers, committees, and mobs are giving their entire attention to the performance carried on for their entertainment between the fair rival advocates, who are balanced at either end of a plank laid across a stone post. The Duchess of Devonshire is sent up into the air ; her end of the poll is carried over Fox's head ; 'Duke and no Duke, a play' is placarded above her. The opposite extreme of the poll is weighed down effectually by the weight of a corpulent lady, described in these election squibs as Madame Blubber, the Honourable Mrs. Hobart (Lady Buckinghamshire), of Pic-Nic notoriety. Hood is cheating by kneeling down and clinging to the skirts of the Ministerial championess, he lends an additional weight to his side of the balance ; behind them is Wray, defying his opponent. Over the heads of this group flutters a placard, 'The Rival Candidates, a farce!
- Artist:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Date:
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April 12, 1784
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Satires (Visual works)
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Seesaws
Nobility
Political elections
Politicians
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806
Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805
Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
- Places:
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EnglandLondonCovent Garden
- Extent:
- 1 print : hand-colored etching ; plate mark 26 x 36 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57p996w
- Terms of Use:
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