• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Trump (dog) (category Paintings of dogs)
    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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    Allan Ramsay, Portrait of Charles Stuart, 1745 Thomas Hudson, Portrait of Admiral Byng, 1749 William Hogarth, Humours of an Election 1755 The antiquary and...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Britain. The candidates returned in contested elections are listed in the descending order of the number of votes received. The Tory versus Whig party division...
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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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    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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  • new forms of humor evolved, based on the new possibilities delivered by electronic means of communication. Popular forms of internet humour are found...
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    Wąchock (section Humour)
    annual meeting of sołtyses. In 1988 there was a documentary by Józef Gębski [pl], with a grain of humour, about the elections of the sołtys of Wąchock, "Sołtys...
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    The University of Cambridge Chancellor election, 2011 refers to a rare instance of a contested election for the position of Chancellor that occurred in...
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    state election was held on 1 May 2021 to elect all 25 members to the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The incumbent Liberal government, led by Premier of Tasmania...
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    Donnybrook Fair (category History of Dublin (city))
    also called "The Humours of Donnybrook" or "The Humours of Donnybrook Fair". The term "Donnybrook Fair" is used as a brand by a chain of food retail stores...
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