Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). A Country Inn Yard (or The Election Procession in the Yard). The last travellers enter the overland stagecoach, the postilion already took the driver’s seat, and the landlady acting as postmaster urges for hurry by heavily ringing the bell. In the front a hunched small postilion asks a corpulent gentleman changing coaches here for a gratuity for the previous stage. Engraving. Inscribed: Design’d and Engrav’d by W. Hogarth. — Publish’d According to Act of Parliament. 1747. 22 x 31 cm.

After the painting of 1747. – Independently of the rich postal scene the actual happenings – in addition to the Four Prints of an Election – concern the mockery of a

“ candidate  defeated  in  a  parliamentary  election ”

whose stuffed figure – as already in regard of the Duke of Newcastle on plate 1 of the Election set – is carried round in a procession of the opposing party. This all the more annoyingly as the defeat is caused by formalities, that is the yet nearly missed age of the candidate, and thus was foreseeable. Accordingly unwillingly an agent of the unfortunate – a print of the Act against bribery and corruption in his pocket – foots the bill for the wasted election entertainment to the landlord.

“ The well-known plate … shows with Dickens’ humour a comfortable depiction of rural petty bougoisie ”

(Thieme-Becker XVII, p. 297, 2).

Nagler 30. – Impression on strong paper from the plate reworked by the royal engraver James Heath (1757 London 1834) about 1822.
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– – The same in engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Hogarth pinxt. / T. Cook & Son sc. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, May 1^st. 1808. Subject size 12.2 x 17.1 cm.

Cook’s smaller version, engraved together with his son. – Trimmed within the wide white platemark.
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– – The same in engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840). Inscribed: W. Hogarth pinx. 1747. / E. Riepenhausen sc. 21.3 x 26.7 cm.

Riepenhausen’s  works  after  Hogarth  ( “very valuable” ) belong to his major work and are partially preferred to those by Hogarth. – In regard of the especially fine, buff paper supposedly an impression for a special edition about 1830. – Margins somewhat age-spotted. Equally the image itself slightly.
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– – The same by Riepenhausen as before, but on slightly toned minor paper.
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– – The same in lithography. (1833/36.) Inscribed: Die Landkutsche. 24.7 x 23.7 cm. – Extensive subtext in German.
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