Marriage a-la-mode. Plate VI [graphic] / invented, painted & published by Wm. Hogarth ; engraved by G. Scotin.

Edition:

[State 2].

Published/Created:

[London]
[Wm. Hogarth]
according to act of Parliament, April 1st, 1745

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 37.8 x 45.5 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2758
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), 163
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), 233

Notes:

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.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).

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.

Variant Titles:

Marriage a-la-mode

Associated Names:

Scotin, Louis Gérard, 1690- [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Adultery
Children
Death
Dogs
Interiors
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-18
Merchants
Nobility
paintings
People with disabilities
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958
Pharmacists
Physicians
Servants
Steevens, George, 1736-1800
Suicides
Syphilis

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1745
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1745
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1745

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Kinnaird 18K Box 300

Orbis Record:

9876964

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22308

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030633

PID:

digcoll:2807136