The countess holds a morning levée in her lavishly decorated bedroom. Her hairdresser curls her hair as she chats with her lawyer, Silvertongue, who is making arrangements to meet her at a masquerade (as shown on the screen). Others in the room include a female friend and her husband; a castrato singer accompanied by a flautist; a young black man who serves chocolate to the party; and a small black boy who points to the horns of a figure of Actaeon purchased at an auction with other objects, including a fake mermaid and a plate with the scene of Leda and the swan; playing cards and invitations are on the floor in the lower right. On the walls are paintings of biblical stories and mythology, including Lot's Daughters, Jupiter and Io, and Rape of Ganymede
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., After the painting "The Toilette" in the National Gallery, London., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Sheet trimmed to: 38.6 x 46.1 cm., and Formerly on page 116 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1745]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Dr. Herring Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop Herring
Description:
Title etched around image., C. Mosley after a painting by William Hogarth. See Catalogue of Engraved British portraits., Date from Catalogue of engraved British portraits., A portrait of the Archbishop at the head of an engraved speech., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.)., and Formerly on page 122 in volume 2. Remove in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Name):
James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766. and Herring, Thomas, 1693-1757
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
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Plate 6
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., and Formerly on page 120 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Children, Death, Dogs, Interiors, Merchants, Nobility, Paintings, Pharmacists, People with disabilities, Physicians, Servants, Suicides, and Syphilis
In a bedroom of The Bagnio, the mortally-wounded Earl leans on a table, the countess kneeling before him with clasped hands. Behind her on the right Silvertongue escapes through the window. On the left the watchmen stand in the doorway with startled expressions. The floor is strewn with clothing including a hooped petticoat, masks, the countess's shoes and her stays
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Plate 4
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., After the painting "The Bagnio" in the National Gallery, London., and Formerly on page 118 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
The scene is the interior of a dispensary with the Viscount sitting in a chair, his child-mistress at his knee. The young girl holds a handkerchief to her mouth as if to hide a sore. With his right hand he holds a pill-box out to the doctor; with his left, he threatens him with his raised cane. A large, well-dressed woman looks angrily at the young man and opens a knife, while the quack polishes his glasses, at his side a skull on the table. The room contains numerous medical and scientific objects, including machines for straightening shoulders and for drawing corks, a dried crocodile, a narwhal's tusk, two mummies, a skeleton, and two pictures, one of a two-headed hermaphrodite and the other an anthropophagi (see Paulson).
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Plate 3
Description:
Ttitle and number engraved below image., State from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Sheet trimmed to: 38.3 x 46.4 cm., and Formerly on page 114 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Children, Crocodiles, Medical equipment & supplies, Nobility, Rake's progress, Physicians, Prostitutes, Quacks, Scientific equipment, Sexually transmitted diseases, and Skeletons
The young couple are seen in a large, well-furnished room that is in a state of disorder after a night's entertainment; the Viscount is collapsed in a chair having just arrived, the clock showing 1:20 a.m. His sword lies at his feet, broken, and a bonnet hangs from his pocket, suggesting his infidelity; the lap dog sniffs at him suspiciously. The wife's evening's activities at home are suggested by the book "Hoyle on whist" open on the rug in the middle of the floor, a deck of cards on the floor below a card table in the next room, and in the foreground two violins, one with its case open, on the back of an overturned chair, suggesting the wife's own infidelity. The estate steward walks away in disgust at his apparent failure to engage either the husband or the wife in addressing the wad of bills that he has in his hands or the ledger under his arm; in his pocket he carries a pamphlet entitled "Regeneration." Through an archway, a disheveled and sleepy servant scratches his cap; the walls are decorated with paintings of religious figures
Alternative Title:
Marriage à-la-Mode, Pl. 2.
Description:
Title etched below image., State from Paulson., After the painting "Tête à Tête" in the National Gallery, London., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Touched in ink eyelid and stray hair on left but no lock., and Formerly on page 112 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
The Earl Squander and a city merchant arrange the marriage of their son and daughter in a grand sitting room. The Earl, whose coronet is stamped on all his possessions, unfolds a diagram of his illustrious family tree as the alderman focuses on the marriage contract and his payment. The extravagantly dressed young groom-to-be looks at his reflection in a glass while his future bride listens intently at the lawyer's soft words. Through the window is a view of a palatial house under construction. The walls of the room are covered with paintings of Roman and Old Testament scenes as well as the screaming face of Medusa. In the foreground on the right, two dogs are chained together, one lying down but looking out the corner of his eyes at the viewer, the other looking off to the right
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Pl. I
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Sheet trimmed to: 38 x 46.3 cm., and Formerly on page 110 in volume 2. Removed in 2012 by LWL conservator.
The Earl Squander and a city merchant arrange the marriage of their son and daughter in a grand sitting room. The Earl, whose coronet is stamped on all his possessions, unfolds a diagram of his illustrious family tree as the alderman focuses on the marriage contract and his payment. The extravagantly dressed young groom-to-be looks at his reflection in a glass while his future bride listens intently at the lawyer's soft words. Through the window is a view of a palatial house under construction. The walls of the room are covered with paintings of Roman and Old Testament scenes as well as the screaming face of Medusa. In the foreground on the right, two dogs are chained together, one lying down but looking out the corner of his eyes at the viewer, the other looking off to the right
Alternative Title:
Marriage a-la-mode. Pl. I
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil on folio page: See Nichols's book, 3d edit, p. 262, &c., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil at bottom of print: Given me by Mr. Henderson [?]., Ms. note in brown ink below image at bottom right: Scotin fe. aqua forti., and Formerly on page 109 in volume 2. Removed from Steevens volume by LWL conservator.