Marriage a-la-mode. Plate VI [graphic] / invented, painted & published by Wm. Hogarth ; engraved by G. Scotin.
- Creator:
- Scotin, Louis GeĢrard, 1690-, printmaker.
- 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
- 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.
CtY-LW - 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.
- Topics:
- Adultery.
Children.
Death.
Dogs.
Interiors.
Merchants.
Nobility.
Paintings.
People with disabilities.
Pharmacists.
Physicians.
Servants.
Suicides.
Syphilis. - Topics:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird,--Baron,--1780-1826--Ownership.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Engravings--England--London--1745.
Etchings--England--London--1745.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1745. - Format:
- Image
- 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
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize) Shelved in solander box.
Kinnaird 18K Box 300 - Orbis Record:
- 9876964
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr26182
- Citation:
- 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 - OID:
- 16194039
- PID:
- digcoll:4048483
