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Exhibition History"Let the People Decide," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa

"Masterworks on Paper: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999

"Diversions: Images Of Entertainment And Amusement," Des Moines Art Center
DimensionsSheet: 18 1/2 × 23 3/8 in. (47 × 59.4 cm)
Plate: 17 1/8 × 22 in. (43.5 × 55.9 cm)
Image: 15 13/16 × 21 1/4 in. (40.2 × 54 cm)
Accession Number 1964.45
Classificationsprint
CopyrightPublic Domain
InscriptionsAN ELECTION ENTERTAINMENT Plate I (u,c plate); Painted and engraved by Wm. Hogarth (l,l plate); Published 24th Febry. 1755, as the Act directs (l,r plate) To the Right Honourable Henry Fox....This Plate is humbly Inscrib'd by - his most Obedient Humble Servt. Wm. Hogarth (l,c plate); insc: 89. (l,l graphite)
Catalogue raisonnéPaulson 198 viii/viii
EditionPlate 1 of 4
An Election Entertainment from Four Prints of an Election
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines