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Contributor Dawkins, Henry, -1786?
Hunt, Isaac, approximately 1742-1809.
Title The election a medley, humbly inscribed, to Squire Lilliput Professor of Scurrillity. [graphic]
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1764
Date [1764]
Physical Description 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 49 x 38 cm (19.25 x 15 in.)
Description A pro-Franklin cartoon depicting a crowd gathered to vote at the Philadelphia courthouse during the Pennsylvania Assembly election of October 1764. The print advocates Franklin's appointment as provincial agent to Britain despite his election loss which was a result of his double-sided politics in dealing with the "Paxton Boys," white frontiersmen who murdered peaceful Native Americans. Contains thirty-three verses attributed to Rev. Isaac Hunt to be sung to various tunes. Created as an attack on satirist James Dove, referred to in this title as "Squire Lilliput Professor of Scurrillity," in response to his anti-Franklin print, "The Paxton Expedition." The courthouse crowd includes caricatures of James Dove and five African Americans, including a woman stating in the vernacular, "Mase Lidiput you puchuss a me," a reference to a character pursued sexually by Dove in an earlier anti-Dove cartoon, "A Conference between the Devil and Mr. Dove" (1764).
Is referenced by Snyder, City of Independence p. 7
Murrell, Graphic Humor, vol. 1 p. 16
Evans 9650
Notes Place and date of publication provided by Snyder and Murrell.
Possibly after the work of Henry Dawkins.
Manuscript note: Published for the Election of the 1st of 8th 1764 of Philadelphia.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
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Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject Dove, David James, 1696?-1769, -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Pennsylvania. Provincial Assembly -- Elections, 1764.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American men -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Courthouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Racism in popular culture.
Geographic subject Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
Genre Political cartoons -- 1760-1770.
Intaglio prints -- 1760-1770.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Political Cartoons - [1764] Ele [959.F.74]
Accession number 959.F.74