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Chairing the members. Plate 4
Title
Chairing the members. Plate 4 [graphic] / engrav'd by W. Hogarth & F. Aviline [sic].
Edition
[State 3].
Publication
[London] : [Wm. Hogarth], published 1st Janry., 1758, as the act directs.
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 43.6 x 56 cm, on sheet 47.1 x 62 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title engraved above image.
State from Paulson.
State with the word "NDINTUR" added to the paper hanging from the upper window on the right. with other design enhancements. See Paulson.
Fourth and final print in a series: Four prints of an election.
Dedication etched below image: To the Honble. George Hay, one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, &c,&c. This plate is most humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient, humble servant, Willm. Hogarth.
Exhibited: "James Gillray's Hogarthian Progresses" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, April 2016 - September 2016.
Provenance
George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.
Formerly owned by Queen Charlotte, the album bound according to Her Majesty's direction.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Summary
"Scene in a country town with two newly-elected members of parliament (one a representation of George Bubb Doddington, the other visible only as a shadow on a distant wall) carried shoulder-high along the street, led by a blind and ragged fiddler and surrounded by a chaotic and disreputable crowd; two chimney boys sit on the church wall, a dancing-bear interferes with a donkey's load and is about to be clubbed by the driver, the one-legged bear-leader (dressed in sailor's clothes) is engaged in a fight with a man swinging a flail, a rifle slung over a monkey's shoulder discharges to the horror of a black serving woman, a sow and her piglets up-end a woman as they charge across the street, a soldier stripped to the waist for a boxing bout is taking tobacco from a wrapper; to right, dishes of food are being carried into an elegant house where victory is being celebrated."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 04, 2011
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, no. 3318
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd rev. ed.), no. 201
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1758.
Engravings - England - London - 1758.
Etchings - England - London - 1758.
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
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