The Poll

1784

Thomas Rowlandson

Artist, British, 1756 - 1827

William Humphrey

Publisher, English, 1745 - 1810

Thomas Rowlandson

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and stipple with hand coloring on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Grego 1880, Vol. I, no. 127

Associated Artworks

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Caricatures (volume I)

Thomas Rowlandson

1756

The Bum Shop

British 18th Century, S. W. Fores

1785

The Maiden Speech

Thomas Rowlandson

1785

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

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Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q65025834

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