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- Creator:
- Baron, Bernard, 1696-1762 printmaker
- Published / Created:
- according to act of Parliament, April 1st 1745.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Box 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 18. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Marriage a-la-mode. [graphic] / Plate III