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.
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.6 x 46.2 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm.
Leaf 21 in: Album of William Hogarth prints. - Provenance
- Gift of Richard Greenberg; May 2015.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 37.8 x 45.5 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Edition
- [State 2].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio Greenberg 75 H67 753
- 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
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9876964
- Object ID (OID)
- 33228417