The countess's levee: a barber dresses her hair while she converses with Silvertongue, her lawyer. Engraving by Simon François Ravenet after W. Hogarth, 1745.

  • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Date:
[1745]
Reference:
38356i
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Marriage a-la-mode
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The lawyer holds a ticket and points to a screen decorated with a masquerade. Among the entourage are two black servants and a singer. The paintings on the wall include "Lot and his daughters", "Jupiter and Io" after Correggio, a portrait of Silvertongue, and the "Rape of Ganymede" The room is the countess's boudoir. Accompanying the singer is a flautist. The cups contain drinking chocolate

Publication/Creation

[London] : Wm Hogarth, [1745]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 35.3 x 44.8 cm.

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Marriage-a-la-mode, (plate IV). invented painted & published by Wm Hogarth. Engraved by S. Ravenet. According to act of parliament April 1st 1745. There is lettering within the print

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Paulson /

References note

R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, London 1989, 3rd edition, no. 161
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1877, vol. 3, no. 2731

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Wellcome Collection 38356i

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