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• Author/Creator:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
  
• Title:The poll [graphic].
  
• Publication:London : Publishd. by Wm. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand, [not before 27 April 1784]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching with stipple ; plate mark 25 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 29 x 40 cm
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; sheet 24.3 x 33.8 cm.
    Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
    Formerly mounted on leaf 59 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
    
  • Provenance:From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
    
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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 784.04.27.01.2+ Impression 1
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Mounted to 31 x 43 cm.
    
  • Provenance:Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no.: 966-12-4-144.
    
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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 784.04.27.01.2+ Impression 2
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Alfred Bowditch Collection; December 1966; Acquisitions no. 966-12-4-143.
    

   
• Medium:wove paper
  
• Local Notes:Temporary local subject terms: Election favors -- Polls -- See-saws -- Playbills -- Hustings -- Literature: Sir Henry Bate Dudley, Bt, 1745-1824, The rival candidates -- Literature: Tate, fl. 1605, Duke and no duke.
  
• Notes:Title etched below image.
  Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
  Reissue by Humphrey of a plate originally published by Elizabeth Darchery; previous imprint statement has been burnished from plate and a new one etched in its place.
  Date of publication based on earlier state with the imprint "Pub. April 27th, 1784, by E. Darchery, St. James's Street." Cf. New York Public Library, Caricatures collected by Horace Walpole (catalog ID: b16513354), Walpole 64.
  Exhibited: "Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, September 2015 - February 2016.
  
• Summary:"A see-saw representing the state of the poll between Fox and Wray, Mrs. Hobart (left) seated on one end, the Duchess of Devonshire (right) on the other, in front of the polling-booth in Covent Garden. Mrs. Hobart, enormously fat, quite out-weighs the Duchess, and is, moreover, held down by Lord Hood who kneels behind her (left), while Sir Cecil Wray stands beside him watching the contest with an enigmatical expression. Fox stands behind the Duchess trying to hold down her end of the plank, but in vain; his uplifted left arm and closed eyes express the despair which he actually felt in the early days of polling (Russell, 'Corr. of Fox', ii. 267). The ladies face each other astride the plank, their arms outstretched, their bosoms bare. The plank rests on an irregular stone post. An excited crowd, very freely sketched, watches from the hustings and from below them; they scream encouragement to the rivals, waving their hats. Over the head of Wray is a playbill, 'The Rival Candidates Farce'; behind the Duchess is another, 'Duke and no Duke Play'. The former was a comic opera by Henry Bate (afterwards Bate-Dudley), first played 1775, the latter a farce by Tate, 1605."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 6526
  Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 127-8
  
• Subjects:Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806--Caricatures and cartoons.
  Great Britain. Parliament--Elections, 1784.
  Politics and government--England--London.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
  Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
  Riviere & Son--Binding.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1784.
  Etchings--England--London--1784.
  
• Also listed under:Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.