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   WILLIAM HOGARTH EDITIONS 

   
 

An Election Series, Plate IV

 

Chairing the Members

   
 

 

   
 

 

   
   

This is the lower-left corner of the c. 1800 edition.

 

       
   

This is the lower-left corner of the 1822 edition. The fine lines of the inscription have worn away.

 

       
 

Hogarth's signature in the lower-right corner of the c. 1800 edition.

 

 
       
 

Hogarth's signature in the lower-right corner of the 1822 edition.

 

 
               
 
 

Here's Britannia "stuck in the carriage" from the c. 1800 edition.

 

       
 
 

Here's Britannia "stuck in the carriage" from the 1822 edition.

Above the carriage, the stones of the bridge have been obscured by cross-hatching.

Inside the carriage, the linework on Britannia is significantly different and details in the face and drapery are lost.

   
 
 
 

 

   
 
 

In the c. 1800 edition, the sky above the bridge is rendered with diagonal lines going upward from left to right.

 

       
 
 

In the Baldwin & Craddock, the sky above the bridge is rendered with diagonal lines going downward from left to right.

The figures on the bridge have lost almost all detail.

 

       
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