The Humours of an Election is a series of four oil painting and later engravings by William Hogarth that illustrate the election of a member of parliament in Oxfordshire in 1754. The oil paintings were created in 1755. The first three paintings, An Election Entertainment, Canvassing for Votes and The Polling, demonstrate the corruption endemic in parliamentary elections in the 18th century, before the Great Reform Act, and the last painting, Chairing the Member, shows the celebrations of the victorious Tory candidate and his supporters. Mona Lisa, Oil on wood panel painting by Leonardo da Vinci La Donna Velata, painted in 1516, Oil on wood panel painting by Raphael Oil painting is done on surfaces with pigment ground into a medium of oil — especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. ... Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. ... William Hogarth, self-portrait, 1745 William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 – October 26, 1764) was a major English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in south-east England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... The British Reform Act of 1832 (2 & 3 Will. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

The Humours of an Election

An Election Entertainment, The Humours of an Election series, 1755 (Includes famous "Give us our Eleven days" protest against Gregorian calendar at lower right.) Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2024x1607, 264 KB) Painting by William Hogarth, ca. ...

Canvassing for Votes, The Humours of an Election series, 1755

The Polling, The Humours of an Election series, 1755

Chairing the Member, The Humours of an Election series, 1755