Print: 'Canvassing for Votes' by William Hogarth Cork The eight paintings in William

The eight paintings in William Hogarth's 'A Rake's Progress' tell the story of Tom Rakewell

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Print: 'Canvassing for Votes' by William Hogarth Cork The eight paintings in WilliamThis is the second painting from William Hogath's An Election series, which hangs in Sir John Soane's Museum Picture Room. The innkeeper's wife counts the profit on the entertainment while gifts are offered to female relatives of voters, seeking their influence. A young man accepts two bribes at once. The inn sign suggests the money comes from appropriated public funds. The four paintings in Hogarth's final 'modern moral subject' series was first