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The Inspection (Primary Title)
Marriage A La Mode (Series Title)
The Scene with the Quack (Former Title)

William Hogarth, English, 1697 - 1764 (Artist)

1745
English
Works On Paper
Prints
etching and engraving on heavy laid paper
European Art
Sheet (trimmed to plate line): 15 1/2 × 18 9/16 in. (39.37 × 47.15 cm)
Image: 14 × 17 9/16 in. (35.56 × 44.61 cm)
Mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 60.96 cm)
67.32.3
Not on view
In this plate the viscount and his young mistress, accompanied by her furious mother, visit a French doctor. The black spot on his neck is indicative of exposure to mercury, the active ingredient in pills prescribed for venereal disease. As in the other prints, the bizarre setting ironically comments on the foibles and ill fate of the protagonists.
Printed beneath image, lower left: "Invented Painted & Published by Wm. Hogarth"; lower right: "Engraved by B. Baron/ According to Act of Parliament April 1st. 1745"; lower center: "Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate III." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "Paulson 230 I ?/ 3"
The Council Graphic Arts Fund
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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