You Searched For
1 entry found
Search Results
1. Marriage a-la-mode. [graphic] / Plate VI
- Creator:
- Scotin, Louis Gérard, 1690-, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- according to act of Parliament, April 1st, 1745.
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 18K Box 300
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 21. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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
- 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., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Adultery, Children, Death, Dogs, Interiors, Merchants, Nobility, Paintings, Pharmacists, People with disabilities, Physicians, Servants, Suicides, and Syphilis
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Marriage a-la-mode. [graphic] / Plate VI
