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print
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satirical print
Object Type
print
satirical print
Museum number
X,8.21
Title
Object:
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate VI
Series:
Marriage A-la-Mode
Description
Copy of "The Lady's Death" (after the painting by Hogarth in the National Gallery); interior of a City merchant's house near London Bridge with the countess dying in a chair, an execution broadside at her feet indicates that Silvertongue has been hanged for killing her husband; 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 berates a simple-minded servant for procuring the laudanum with which the suicide has been effected and a doctor leaves by a door to left; the sparsely decorated room contrasts in every detail with the grand interior of Plate II of the series - chairs are heavy, the floor is bare, the clock is a simple weight-driven wall-clock, the paintings are Dutch peasant subjects, and a set of ledgers indicates that accounts are kept up to date. 1800 Mezzotint with etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Richard Earlom
After:
William Hogarth
Published by:
John Boydell
Published by:
Josiah Boydell
School/style
British
Production date
1800
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
etching
Dimensions
Height:
509 millimetres
Width:
632 millimetres
(trimmed)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
In the same direction as Hogarth's painting; in reverse to the print (Paulson [1989] 163, Paulson [1965/70] 233).
Bibliographic references
Wessely 1886 / Richard Earlom, Verzeichniss seiner Radirungen und Schabkunstblätter
(108)
Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century
(46)
BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(2762)
Paulson 1989 / Hogarth's Graphic Works: third edition
(163)
(copy)
Paulson 1965/70 / Hogarth's graphic works: first complete edition
(233)
(copy)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
satire
suicide
doctor
apothecary
eating/drinking
execution
Associated places
Topographic representation of:
London
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
(with Philipe's oval blindstamp and initials CMC)
Acquisition date
1799
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
X,8.21