The Humours of an Election IV: Chairing the Member, 1754-55 (detail). By William Hogarth (1697-1764). 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 this painting one of the victorious Tory candidates is being carried through the streets on a chair in a traditional ceremony. A black Briton, holds her passed-out mistress who is being given smelling salts by another attendant.

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