Representation of the Election of Members of Parliament for Westminster 1818 Size:large with boats on the river

with boats on the river and a group of fishermen casting a net from the shore

The painting was acquired by the London Museum as a work by Charles Hunt and is signed and dated accordingly at bottom left

St Giles's parish

Song in the musical farce

guidance on security and insurance

Representation of the Election of Members of Parliament for Westminster 1818 Size:large with boats on the riverRepresentation of the Election of Members of Parliament for Westminster, detail. Hand coloured etching with aquatint. The polling for the two Westminster MPs took place at Covent Garden. Candidates addressed the boisterous crowds from a stand or 'hustings' erected in front of St Paul's Church. A placard in the left foreground shows the current state of the poll. Hunt, trailing a poor fourth, was the radical Henry 'Orator' Hunt, who proposed annual