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The Election
David Wilkie19th century
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: The Election
- Creator: After David Wilkie
- Date Created: 19th century
- Subject Keywords: government, politics
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in ink (inscribed in plate?), lower left: “D. Wilkie ft”; inscribed by hand on verso: “The original pen and ink drawing is in my possession / Howard Mansfield”
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1947
- Materials & Techniques: Photogravure after pen and ink drawing on white wove paper
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: Photogravure of a pen and ink drawing (1947.D1.309.1) of the same title in DAC Collection
- Dimensions: 1841
- Bibliography: Campbell Dodgson, p. 28, describes as a photogravure representing an election speech by C.J. Fox; two impressions in black and blue ink are in the British Museum
- Associated People: After David Wilkie (British (Scottish), 1785-1841)
- Accession Number: 1947.D1.309.2
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