A triumphant candidate, borne aloft by his supporters, is about to topple from his chair due to an obstructing donkey, the disturbance of a fight and a frightened family of swine dashing underneath. Engraving by William Hogarth and François Antoine Aviline, 1758.

Paulson identifies the successful candidate as George Bubb Doddington (1691-1762), a notorious politicking turncoat. Above his head flies a goose. Leading the procession and cheerfully oblivious to what is going on behind him is a fiddler. A chimney sweep mischieviously holds a pair of glasses over the eye sockets of a skull and crossbones peering down at a chained dancing bear ridden by a monkey. The bear rummages through a barrel of offal carried by a donkey. A shot is accidentally fired from a rifle on the monkey's back. Behind the wall a woman has fainted and is being revived by smelling salts. A man has his head in an overturned beer barrel and a stripped soldier near the milestone takes tobacco