Hogarth’s Election Series
Peter Quennell says Hogarth’s great survey of the Humours of an Election is one of the masterpieces of English 18th century painting
It was in February 1755 that William Hogarth made the first – and, as it was to turn out, much the more fortunate – of his two major expeditions into the field of political satire. Hitherto he had seemed well content with social and domestic subjects.