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.
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.3 x 46.6 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm.
Plate 21 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. - Provenance
- Formerly owned by Queen Charlotte, the album bound according to Her Majesty's direction. Purchased by W.S. Lewis at Sotheby's, Miss M.A.E. Crofton sale, lot 341; 15 November 1960.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 38. 3 x 46.6 cm, on sheet 47.2 x 61.1 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Edition
- [State 3].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 764 (Oversize)
- 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
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9886000
- Object ID (OID)
- 33185239