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Hogarth's election entertainment : artists at the hustings

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection E037

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Type of record: Book

Title: Hogarth's election entertainment : artists at the hustings

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection E037

Additional creator(s): Bindman, David (1940-) (Editor); Ekserdjian, David (Editor); Palin, Will (Editor); Hislop, Ian (Writer of foreword); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Sir John Soane's Museum (Host institution)

Related people: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764; Hogarth, William, 1697-1764

Publisher: Apollo Magazine

Publication city: London

Date(s): 2001

Language: English

Size and medium: 34 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730984

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019926173005181

Description

Published to accompany an exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, March 23-August 25, 2001.


Chairing the member: Hogarth's election paintings and their influence / David Bindman -- The grand finale, Newton reigns supreme : an interpretation of Chairing the member / Elizabeth Einberg -- The liberty of voting restored : William Hogarth's Election series as a vision of electoral (dis)order / Emma Baudey -- The frontispiece to The humours of a country election: a source for Hogarth's Election series / Eva Pol -- The election carnival: the spectacle of the Hustings / Tamatha Blair -- Hogarth and Bingham: differing views of the electoral process / Stephanie Eu -- Catalogue of the exhibition.


Includes bibliographical references.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection E037: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: GX/54.

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