Electioneering Collection

Election fair, Copenhagen Fields, Islington, London, 1795. Artist: James Gillray
Copenhagen House.I tell you, citizens, we mean to new-dress the Constitution and turn it, and set a new nap on it Shakespeare ; showing an election fair in Copenhagen Fields, Islington, London, 1795

Grand Presidential Auction Sale, from Puck, 1888. Creator: Charles Jay Taylor
Grand Presidential Auction Sale, from Puck, 1888

The Freedom of Election, published June 22, 1818. Creator: Isaac Robert Cruikshank
The Freedom of Election, published June 22, 1818

County Election, 1854. Creator: John Sartain
County Election, 1854

Charles James Fox on the Hustings at Covent Garden, n.d. Creator: David Wilkie
Charles James Fox on the Hustings at Covent Garden, n.d

A Country Inn Yard, 1747, (1925). Creator: William Hogarth
A Country Inn Yard, 1747, (1925). Published soon after the 1747 election. The composition renders the Election marginal, suggesting the English are too preoccupied with their own day-to-day

Canvassing for Votes, Plate II: Four Prints of an Election, February 20, 1757

Covent Garden Market, Westminster, London, 1808. Artist: Augustus Charles Pugin
Covent Garden Market, Westminster, London, 1808. View of electioneering taking place at Covent Garden, with some spectators carrying banners

The Hustings. Vox populi, We ll have a mug! a mug! a mug!, 1796. Artist
The Hustings. Vox populi, We ll have a mug! a mug! a mug!, 1796. Charles James Fox on the hustings at Covent Garden speaking to the mob saying

Election fair, Copenhagen Fields, London, 1795. Artist: James Gillray
Election fair, Copenhagen Fields, London, 1795. I tell you, citizens, we mean to new-dress the Constitution and turn it, and set a new nap on it Shakespeare

The Middlesex election, 1775. Artist: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm
The Middlesex election, 1775. A citizen records his vote at a polling station. A fat man brandishes a knife. On the left a frightened citizen is being hustled to the booth by a man brandishing

Covent Garden with election hustings in the background, featuring Charles James Fox, (c1790?)
Covent Garden with election hustings in the background, featuring Charles James Fox, London, (c1790?). In the foreground a riot has broken out

The Westminster canvass, 1784. Artist: William Dent
The Westminster canvass, 1784. Charles James Fox, as Guy Fawkes, being carried in a chair by his supporters Edward Hall and Sam House

Chairing the Members, 1758. Artist: F Aviline
Chairing the Members, 1758; the victorious members are being borne by their constituents on chairs through the streets. The scene is chaotic

The Polling, 1758. Artist: Peter La Cave
The Polling, 1758; a polling booth on election day with reserve voters being brought up; one, an old soldier who has lost both arms and a leg; the other an imbecile. Third and final state of the plate

Canvassing for votes, 1757. Artist: Charles Grignion
Canvassing for votes, 1757; scene with two country innkeepers, agents for their respective parties, are here dropping money into the hands of a rustic freeholder

Election in Covent Garden, London, 1818. Artist: Rudolph Ackermann
Election in Covent Garden, London, 1818. View in Covent Garden, London of the election of members of parliament for Westminster, 1818

Chairing the Members, Plate IV from The Humours of an Election, 1757. Artist: William Hogarth
Chairing the Members, Plate IV from The Humours of an Election, 1757. This series of four plates depicts the Oxfordshire parliamentary election of 1754

Canvassing for Votes, Plate II from The Humours of an Election, 1757. Artist: William Hogarth
Canvassing for Votes, Plate II from The Humours of an Election, 1757. This series of four plates depicts the Oxfordshire parliamentary election of 1754

Election hustings in Stepney Green during the Tower Hamlets election, London, 1852. From the Illustrated London News (10 June 1852)

Election hustings in Clerkenwell Green during the Finsbury election, London, 1852. A print from The Illustrated London News (10 June 1852)

Election hustings in Covent Garden during the Westminster election, London, 1852. From the Illustrated London News (10 June 1852)

Printing election posters in Japan, 1936. Artist: Fox Photos
Printing election posters in Japan, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

Canvassing for votes, 1757. Artist: William Hogarth
Canvassing for votes, 1757. Two country innkeepers, agents for their respective parties, are here dropping money into the hands of a rustic freeholder

The Duke of Newcastle and Lord Holland, 1761 (c1905). Satirical electioneering card. Print published in Parliament Past and Present by Arnold Wright and Philip Smith, (London, c1905)

The Conscripts of 1892, (1892). Artist: Henri Meyer
The Conscripts of 1892, (1892). A print from the Le Petit Journal, 5th March 1892

A Brave Lady, 1872. Voting at the local elections had been open to women rate-payers since 1869. Punch here takes a sardonic look at the ability of women to cast a thoughtful and considered vote

Cobdens Logic, 1863. Artist: John Tenniel
Cobdens Logic, 1863. Cobden, MP for Manchester, made a speech in neighbouring Rochdale in which, on the one hand he condemned the British proletariat for their illiteracy, yet, on the other hand

The Old Real Reformer, 1859. There was No Stopping the Slave-trade until I made it Felony, and so it will be with Election Bribery

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