1152912 A distracted scullion pours a cask of brandy onto a half-barrel of filthy slops, detail from An Election, Scene I, An Election Entertainment, 1744-45 (oil on canvas) by Hogarth, William (1697-1764); Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane\'s Museum, London; (add.info.: Election I from the \'Humours of an Election\' series. A tavern dinner organised by Whig candidates, while the Tories protest against the adoption of the Gregorian calendar outside.); 穢 Sir John Soane\'s Museum ; English, out of copyright.