Accession number
PML 145850.221
Published
[England : s.n., ca. 1734]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Satire on the close contest in Kent in the general election of 1734.
Inserted as item 222 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy trimmed to image.
Satire on the close contest in Kent in the general election of 1734.
Inserted as item 222 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy trimmed to image.
Description
1 print : etching ; 166 x 116 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a hustings raised in a large open area in a small country town surrounded by a large crowd of men on horseback and foot many of whom carry whips or sticks; Whig supporters have cockades in their hats and Tories sprigs of oak. Prominent among the Whigs, on the right, is a mounted clergyman; one of man on foot calls out "Protest. Interest", another "Middlesex & Oxendon". Tories cry, "Country Interest", "Vane & Dering", "King & Country", "No Excise". The candidates stand on the crowded hustings while two clerks seated at tables record the votes.
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