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 devised by cataloger.
Series title and number engraved below image.
State from Paulson.
After the painting "The Lady's Death" in the National Gallery, London.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark. - Provenance
- Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., August 1940; Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 37.8 x 45.5 cm
- Edition
- [State 2].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Kinnaird 18K Box 300
- Collection Title
- Leaf 21. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Collection Date
- [England], [not after 1753]
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
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826 > Ownership
Greenberg, Richard > 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
- 9876964
- Object ID (OID)
- 16030633