Marriage a-la-mode. [graphic] / Plate VI
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Description
- Title
- Marriage a-la-mode. [graphic] / Plate VI
- Alternative Title
- Marriage a-la-mode. Plate 6
- Creator
- Scotin, Louis Gérard, 1690-, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- according to act of parliament, April 1st, 1745.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Wm. Hogarth
- Abstract
-
The countess is shown swooning in a chair in her father's house near London Bridge (seen through the window on the left). At her feet a bottle with a label "laudanum" alongside an execution broadside tells us that Silvertongue has been hanged for killing her husband and that she has attempted suicide. Her young child (wearing a leg brace as a result of congenital syphilis) is held up for a last kiss by an old woman, while her father removes her wedding ring. An apothecary strikes the simple-minded servant for procuring the laudanum; a doctor leaves by a door to right. Fire buckets line the hallway. The floor of the room is bare; a heavy chair near a table is overturned, a starving dog chewing at the calf's head on the table. Other decorations include a weight-driven wall-clock, the paintings of Dutch peasant subjects and a man relieving himself against a wall, and a set of ledgers indicates that accounts are kept up to date
- Description
- Title etched below image.
- Provenance
- Sotheby's, F.E. Sotheby Sale, lot 215 (Hogarth's works) to Maggs for W.S. Lewis; 21 Nov. 1955; Formerly owned by Frederick Edward Sotheby of Ecton, Northants, 1837-1909.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 38. 3 x 46.6 cm, on sheet 47.2 x 61.1 cm
- Edition
- [State 3].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Sotheby 21++ Box 300
- Collection Title
- Plate 21. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector.
- Collection Date
- [England], [1732-1764]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1745
Engravings England London 1745
Etchings England London 1745 - Material
- etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Adultery
Children
Death
Dogs
Interiors
Merchants
Nobility
Paintings
Pharmacists
People with disabilities
Physicians
Servants
Suicides
Syphilis - Subjects
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Adultery
Children
Death
Dogs
Interiors
Merchants
Nobility
Paintings
Pharmacists
People with disabilities
Physicians
Servants
Suicides
Syphilis
England > 1745
England > London > 1745
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9886000
- Object ID (OID)
- 16030562