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g2 JOUR PRINTS Or AN ELECTION. "
1759, to the Hon. George Hay, one of the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty.
The original pictures are now in the possession
of Mrs. Garrick, at Hampton.
It appears from the Grub-street journal of June
13, 1734, that the same subject had been pre-
viously attempted by another artist, under the title
of The Humours of a Country Election. It must
be acknowledged that the inscriptions to some of
the compartments, carry a most striking similarity
to the scenes represented by Hogarth.
" The candidates very complaisant to a country
" clown," etc.—" The candidates making an en-
" tertainment for the electors and their wives; at
" the upper end of the table the parson of the pa-
" Tisb," etc.
In 1759 was published, in four cantos, a poeti-
cal description of these prints, introduced by the
following remarkable advertisement, dated
" Cbeapside, March 1,1759.
" For the satisfaction of the reader, and in jus-
tice to the concealed author, I take the liberty,
with the permission of Mr. Hogarth, to insert
in this manner that gentleman's opinion of the
following cantos; which is, That the thoughts
entirely cojneide with his own ; that there is
a well adapted vein of humour preserved
through the whole, and that though some of his
works have been formerly explained by other
1759, to the Hon. George Hay, one of the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty.
The original pictures are now in the possession
of Mrs. Garrick, at Hampton.
It appears from the Grub-street journal of June
13, 1734, that the same subject had been pre-
viously attempted by another artist, under the title
of The Humours of a Country Election. It must
be acknowledged that the inscriptions to some of
the compartments, carry a most striking similarity
to the scenes represented by Hogarth.
" The candidates very complaisant to a country
" clown," etc.—" The candidates making an en-
" tertainment for the electors and their wives; at
" the upper end of the table the parson of the pa-
" Tisb," etc.
In 1759 was published, in four cantos, a poeti-
cal description of these prints, introduced by the
following remarkable advertisement, dated
" Cbeapside, March 1,1759.
" For the satisfaction of the reader, and in jus-
tice to the concealed author, I take the liberty,
with the permission of Mr. Hogarth, to insert
in this manner that gentleman's opinion of the
following cantos; which is, That the thoughts
entirely cojneide with his own ; that there is
a well adapted vein of humour preserved
through the whole, and that though some of his
works have been formerly explained by other