An Election Entertainment

I accidentally visited Hogarth’s grave today and, because Ontario is in the midst of an election, I thought I’d post one of his series of four oil paintings that illustrate the election of a member of parliament in Oxfordshire in 1754. His opinion was not positive.
‘An Election Entertainment’ by William Hogarth, the first of the four paintings that make up ‘The Humours of an Election’ (1755), held by the Soane Museum:

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