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A detail from 'Westminster Election of 1788'. An election-day crowd in Covent Garden. A market seller with his donkey is weighing out his goods with a pair of weighing scales. A young boy helps himself from one of the baskets, while another eats the fruit he has collected in his hat. Two men in the crowd behind the seller wear hats with a candidate's name in them. To the far left is a fashionably dressed young lady with her pet dog.