'Chairing the Members', Plate IV from 'The Humours of an Election', 1757. This series of four plates depicts the Oxfordshire parliamentary election of 1754. Plate IV shows the victorious Tory candidate being carried in triumph by his supporters. In the foreground, two men, wielding a flail and a club, confront each other. From William Hogarth, by Austin Dobson. [Hachette Et Cie, Paris, 1904]
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