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...
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parliament. Humours of an Election, a series of four oil paintings and later engravings by William Hogarth that illustrate, creatively, the election of a member...
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English county election of the 18th century. It was depicted in Hogarth's famous series of paintings and engravings, The Humours of an Election. Oxfordshire...
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William Hogarth (category Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England)
Hogarth's Election series, Humours of an Election, plate 2 The Sleeping Congregation, 1728, Minneapolis Institute of Art Engravings An early print of 1724...
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by the Tate Gallery. In the words of the Tate's display caption, "Hogarth's pug dog, Trump, serves as an emblem of the artist's own pugnacious character...
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Work (painting) (category Collection of Manchester Art Gallery)
was the work of William Hogarth, in particular his paintings Humours of an Election and his prints Beer Street and Gin Lane. The Election paintings depicted...
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Pope Gregory XIII, to correct an error in the Julian calendar that was causing an erroneous calculation of the date of Easter. The Julian calendar had...
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treating is the act of serving food, drink, and other refreshments to influence people for political gain, often shortly before an election. In various countries...
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Susanna Keck (category Year of birth uncertain)
source of information. She was a major player in the election even though it was her husband who was an MP. She was annoyed that the 1750 election had gone...
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Canvassing (category Election campaigning)
famously depicted in William Hogarth's Humours of an Election series of paintings. Most directly this would take the form of direct bribes to voters. This was...
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one of George III's pensioners, introduced Shebbeare as one of the figures in The Polling, the third work of his four-part Humours of an Election series...
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Reform Act 1832 (redirect from Corporate Property (Elections) Act 1832)
grown so great that pro-reform Whigs won an overwhelming House of Commons majority in the general election of 1831. The Whig party won almost all constituencies...
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Humour is an integral part of the Canadian identity. There are several traditions in Canadian humour in both English and French. While these traditions...
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Blue in culture (category Shades of blue)
series of prints by William Hogarth called Humours of an election, made in 1754–55.[citation needed] Blue remains the colour of the Conservative Party of the...
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Sir John Soane's Museum (category Museums in the London Borough of Camden)
other Hogarth paintings Soane purchased were the four canvases of the Humours of an Election bought at auction at Christie's from David Garrick's widow for...
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Allan Ramsay, Portrait of Charles Stuart, 1745 Thomas Hudson, Portrait of John Byng, 1749 William Hogarth, Humours of an Election 1755 The antiquary and...
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for Four Prints of an Election paintings (1754) prints (1755) [197] Four Prints of an Election / Humours of an Election / An Election Series (1755)—a...
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John Soane (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
of the Humours of an Election. Soane acquired three works by his friend J. M. W. Turner. Thomas Lawrence painted a three quarter length portrait of Soane...
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canvases, Chairing the Member, the fourth and last piece in his Humours of an Election series. Hogarth was unable to sell the painting, but he considered...
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in the streets. Two of the women are stealing Tom's watch. In the doorway a female street singer makes an appearance. On one of the walls, hangs a world...
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1754 in art (category Years of the 18th century in art)
Walpole William Hogarth – Humours of an Election (four paintings) February 5 – Gilles-Louis Chrétien, French musician and creator of the physionotrace used...
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Before 1900s in comics (category History of comics)
which follow a sequential order. William Hogarth paints Humours of an Election, a series of paintings which follow a sequential order. Mary and Matthew...
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Sarah Malcolm (category Year of birth missing)
sector, working as a laundress for residents above the Inns of the Court. She came to know an old lady named Lydia Duncomb (aged about 80). Duncomb lived...
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Frederick Pilon (category Irish emigrants to Kingdom of Great Britain)
The Siege of Gibraltar, a musical farce (25 April 1780), celebrated Rodney's victory in the Great Siege of Gibraltar. The Humours of an Election, a farce...
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Charles Fane, 2nd Viscount Fane (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Tavistock)
William Hogarth depicted the 1754 election in his series the Humours of an Election, 1755, which was based on the election in Berkshire's neighbour Oxfordshire...
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federal election was held on January 23, 2006, to elect members to the House of Commons of Canada of the 39th Parliament of Canada. New details of the sponsorship...
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their work on the video sharing platform YouTube. The following is a list of YouTubers for whom Wikipedia has articles either under their own name or their...
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organization for the promotion and development of the cultural sector of humour in Quebec and the National School of Humour [fr], created in 1988, trains future...
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Rohit starrer 'Prathinidhi 2' to hit theaters on May 10 ahead of AP elections". The Times of India. 5 May 2024. ISSN 0971-8257. Archived from the original...
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