Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Four prints of an election [Subscription ticket].
Call Number
D North 53/GC113/Box 01/Normal GA 2024.00841
Identifier
ark:/88435/dck0698p04t
Publisher
1754/03/20.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1754
Extent
1 item
References
Paulson, Ronald. Hogarth's Graphic Works, 1989, p. 197.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Etchings
Item description: 4th state.
Signed in plate, below: "Design'd, etch'd & published as the Act directs by Wm. Hogarth, March 20th, 1754".
Hogarth's engraving relating to the Act for the Encouragement of the Arts of designing, engraving,a nd etching 1735, which marked the beginning of intellectual property law as it applied to works of art, and which is sometimes referred to as the Hogarth Act because of his active promotion of its introduction.
Inscribed: In humble & grateful acknowledgement of the grace & goodness of the legislature, manifested in the Act of Parliament for the encouragement of the arts of designing engraving &c;.

Discovery Information

Subject
Receipts (Acknowledgments)—Great Britain—18th century—Specimens
Tickets—Great Britain—18th century—Specimens
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Four prints on an election

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/aea87c71-7f02-4770-9193-22286dfc3985/manifest