<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Marriage a-la-mode. engraved from the original picture / [graphic] : Plate III</dc:title><dc:creator>Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[1 January 1798]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Consists of the "interior of a dispensary where the viscount has brought his child-mistress to visit M.de la Pillule whose remedy has not cured her venereal disease; a large, well-dressed woman (perhaps a procuress) looks angrily at the young man and opens a knife, while the quack polishes his glasses; the room contains numerous medical and scientific objects, including machines for straightening shoulders and for drawing corks, a dried crocodile, a narwhal's tusk, and two mummies."--British Museum online catalogue</dc:description><dc:description>After Hogarth's painting "The Inspection" in the National Gallery, London</dc:description><dc:description>Title engraved below image.</dc:description><dc:description>In lower left corner: Size of picture 3 ft. by 2 ft. 4 in.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed to plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>No. 3 in a series of 6 images, known as "The inspection."</dc:description><dc:description>Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2717.</dc:description><dc:description>Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 160.</dc:description><dc:description>Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), no. 230.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>