The Poll
1784
Artist, British, 1756 - 1827
Publisher, English, 1745 - 1810
Thomas Rowlandson
Attributed to

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and stipple with hand coloring on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 25 × 35 cm (9 13/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
sheet: 25.6 × 36 cm (10 1/16 × 14 3/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1945.5.157
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Catalogue Raisonné
Grego 1880, Vol. I, no. 127
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Artwork history & notes
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.
Inscriptions
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]
Markings
none
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65025834