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The poll. The scene is still the polling-booth, Covent Garden ; the canvassers, committees, and mobs are giving their entire attention to the performance carried on for their entertainment between the fair rival advocates, who are balanced at either end of a plank laid across a stone post. The Duchess of Devonshire is sent up into the air ; her end of the poll is carried over Fox's head ; 'Duke and no Duke, a play' is placarded above her. The opposite extreme of the poll is weighed down effectually by the weight of a corpulent lady, described in these election squibs as Madame Blubber, the Honourable Mrs. Hobart (Lady Buckinghamshire), of Pic-Nic notoriety. Hood is cheating by kneeling down and clinging to the skirts of the Ministerial championess, he lends an additional weight to his side of the balance ; behind them is Wray, defying his opponent. Over the heads of this group flutters a placard, 'The Rival Candidates, a farce! Artist: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827. Date: April 12, 1784. Sourced from Digital Commonwealth website.
CaptionThe poll. The scene is still the polling-booth, Covent Garden ; the canvassers, committees, and mobs are giving their entire attention to the performance carried on for their entertainment between the fair rival advocates, who are balanced at either end of a plank laid across a stone post. The Duchess of Devonshire is sent up into the air ; her end of the poll is carried over Fox's head ; 'Duke and no Duke, a play' is placarded above her. The opposite extreme of the poll is weighed down effectually by the weight of a corpulent lady, described in these election squibs as Madame Blubber, the Honourable Mrs. Hobart (Lady Buckinghamshire), of Pic-Nic notoriety. Hood is cheating by kneeling down and clinging to the skirts of the Ministerial championess, he lends an additional weight to his side of the balance ; behind them is Wray, defying his opponent. Over the heads of this group flutters a placard, 'The Rival Candidates, a farce! Artist: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827. Date: April 12, 1784. Sourced from Digital Commonwealth website.
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Artwork medium1 print: hand-colored etching; plate mark 26 x 36 cm
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