The viscount sits despondent in a chair, his wife indicates tiredness by stretching her arms, while a disapproving steward exits carrying a handful of bills. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.

  • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Date:
[1745]
Reference:
38352i
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Marriage a-la-mode
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Description

In the background another servant yawns as he moves a chair. On the floor are playing cards. A dog sniffs at a lace bonnet that hangs fom the viscount's pocket. The mantelpiece is crowded with a variety of ornaments indicating the taste of the ill-matched couple. The book in the stewards' pocket has the title of a short sermon by George Whitfield (1714-1770), "The Nature and Necessity Of Our New Birth in Jesus Christ" (1737), which shows him to be a Methodist or an "Enthusiast" and follower of a Puritanical sect

Publication/Creation

[London] : Wm Hogarth, [1745]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 35.5 x 44.6 cm.

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/78/71

Lettering

Marriage-a-la-mode, (plate 2). invented painted & published by Wm. Hogaarth. engraved by B. Barn. according to act of parliament April 1st 1745. A discarded book is inscribed "Hoyle on Whist" and the steward carries a book inscribed "ledger" and another inscribed "regeneration"

Edition

Paulson /

References note

R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, London 1989, 3rd edition, no. 159
British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1877, vol. 3, no. 2702

Reference

Wellcome Collection 38352i

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