Meanwhile, the Tories are bringing a mentally disabled man to vote. In Canvassing for Votes, the second scene, the action takes place outside the Royal Oak inn, the Tory party headquarters.The inn’s sign has been partly covered by another sign that lampoons the Whig candidate, depicting him as the commedia dell’arte character Punch pushing a wheelbarrow full of coins he’s distributing to voters. In the background is the rival Whig establishment the Crown, which also serves as a temporary tax office- a rioting mob is trying to pull down the tax office sign. To licence this image for commercial purposes, contact our Picture Library at [email protected]. The composition of the scene parodies traditional images of the Last Supper and other Biblical feasts. A Black Briton can be seen looking on astonished. 21 1/8 x 15 13/16 Condition: Excellent; Nice dark impression; minor foxing is possible in margins. Canvassing for Votes (Four Prints of an Election, plate 2), Voters are shown declaring their support for the Whigs (orange) or Tories (blue).

One canidate is seen in front of one of the inns talking to his wife above. Agents from both sides are using unscrupulous tactics to increase their votes or challenge opposing voters. Photographer: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited. At the other end of the table the mayor is collapsing from over indulgence in oysters, while the election agent is knocked out by a brick thrown through the window by the Tory mob. Canvassing for Votes (Four Prints of an Election, plate 2), Looking for one of our artists or something from our Collection?

A Whig voter with a hook instead of his amputated hand is being challenged because he is placing his hook, rather than his hand, as legally prescribed, on the book as he swears to his voter identity. Canvassing for Votes (Four Prints of an Election, plate 2), 1757 William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) RA Collection: Art Engraving after the second of William Hogarth's paintings The Humours of an Election (1754-5), his last painted cycle responding to current affairs. The Tories are carrying an antisemitic caricature of a Jew, a reference to recent legislation passed by the Whig government which allowed greater freedom to Jews.

A dying man is being carried in behind him. Photographer: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited. Chairing the member. A MAP of/ SOUTH CAROLINA/ And a PART of/ GEORGIA./ containing the Whole/ Sea-Coast; all the Islands, Inlets, Rivers, Creeks, Parishes,/ Townships, Boroughs, Roads, and Bridges:/ AS ALSO,/ Several Plantations, with their proper Boundary-Lines... To His Excellency Gen.l Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America.

In the background a woman in a carriage with a broken axle stands for Britannia. This Plate most humbly inscrib'd By his Most Obedient humble Servant. The last painting, Chairing the Member, shows the celebrations of the victorious Tory candidates and their supporters.

The Portobello inn on the left represents the independent vote.Hogarth dedicated this print (which he published but did not engrave) to Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1708-59), diplomat and satirist. William Hogarth's 1754 depiction of the sordid and disreputable job of canvassing for votes. As the Act directs To His Excellency Sr Charles Hanbury Willaims Embassador to the Court of Russia. The Tory candidate, on the right outside the Tory inn 'The Royal Oak', purchases trinkets from a Jewish pedlar while looking ath the two ladies on an upstairs balcony.

Canvassing for Votes.

The Humours of an Election is a series of four oil paintings and later engravings by William Hogarth that illustrate the election of a member of parliament in Oxfordshire in 1754. In the tavern the two Whig candidates are ingratiating themselves with supporters. William Hogarth, The IMPORTS of GREAT BRITAIN from FRANCE. The sailors on the right are re-enacting a naval victory using pieces of broken clay pipe.