The Election

David Wilkie19th century

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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