• Title
  Our Candidate / mid-1850s Tasmanian political cartoon
• Call number
  SV/63
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  c.1855 (dated from people depicted in cartoon. "J.S.H.", in fourth panel from left, is probably John Stephen Hampton who left Tasmania in 1855.)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  152512
• Physical Description
  Prints - 1 hand coloured lithograph - 15.8 x 35.8 cm sheet on backing board 26 x 42.8 cm
  
• General note
  
  The later inscriptions identify the first figure from the left (dressed in a convict uniform) as "Thompson", who after the granting of his ticket of leave, seems to become a bootmaker
  The fifth panel from left appears to show the shop of Thomas Harbottle, painter, plumber & glazier of Elizabeth Street, Hobart (see General Directory of Hobart Town, 1854)
  Colour transparency digitised 2000
  Digital order no:c001430001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title printed at top of print
  Each of the eight pictorial panels comprising the cartoon strip is titled
  A four verse poem is printed beneath the panels
  On backing board are a number of later pencil inscriptions referring to events depicted. These later inscriptions title the cartoon at top centre "An Election Contest 1856". These inscriptions also identify "J.S.H." in the fourth panel from left as John Stephen Hampton
• Topic
  cartoons
  colonial art
  convicts
  elections
  emancipists
  political processes
  

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