The Poll, 1784

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Medium

etching and stipple with hand coloring on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 25 × 35 cm (9 13/16 × 13 3/4 in.)

sheet: 25.6 × 36 cm (10 1/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Grego 1880, Vol. I, no. 127

Accession Number

1945.5.157

Artists / Makers

Thomas Rowlandson (artist) British, 1756 - 1827

William Humphrey (publisher) English, 1745 - 1810

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, in image, at upper left: The Rural / Candidates / Farce; in plate, in image, at upper right: DUKE / and no DUKE / Play; in plate, below image, at center: The POLL; in plate, below image, at right: London Publishd by Wm Humphrey. No 227 Strand.; verso: in graphite at lower right in later hand: B-11, 32 [upsidedown]

Marks and Labels

none

Bibliography

1880: Grego, Joseph. Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures. 2 vols. London: Chattoand Windus, 1880. Reprint. New York: Collector's Editions, 1970.