drawing
- Museum number
- 2000,0520.27
- Description
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The Candidate, one of sixteen 'storyboards' published in Punch from 1954 to 1955; six images of the life of the Candidate, with local association, stoned for pure ideals, trampled on by crowd, celebrates when elected, whispering campaign, ejected from House; numbered, titled with brief descriptions beneath each image. 1955
Pen, ink and wash
- Production date
- 1955
- Dimensions
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Height: 513 millimetres
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Width: 398 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Inspired by William Hogarth's engravings, A Rake's Progress (1735), each 'storyboard' is devoted to the progress of a different 'rake'. Fifteen of the original sixteen 'strips' remained in the artist's possession (no.7, 'The MP' is missing), until their sale to the British Museum (2000-5-20-13...27).
See album of working draughts for the Punch series with reproductions of the Hogarth series pasted in the front and the published version of the Searle cartoons pasted in subsequently (2000-9-29-15)
See also group of drawings (2000-5-20-28...48), 'portraits' of the various rakes executed to accompany a book edition of the cartoons, Ronald Searle, The Rake's Progress (London, 1955).
The copyright for these drawings (2000-5-20-13...27) remains with the artist and not with Punch
This work was published as a full page in Punch 18 May 1955.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2001 Mar-Aug, London, Soane Museum, Hogarth's Election Entertainment
2001/2 Oct- Jan, Newcastle, Laing Gallery, Hogarth's Election Entertainment
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Punch
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Associated Title: The Rake's Progress
- Acquisition date
- 2000
- Acquisition notes
- Fifteen drawings (2000-5-20-13...27) were purchased from the artist by the Friends of the British Museum with a contribution from Charlotte Gere and the Friends of Prints and Drawings
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2000,0520.27