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The Bagnio (Primary Title)
Marriage A La Mode (Series Title)
The Death of the Earl (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 5/16 × 18 5/16 in. (38.89 × 46.51 cm)
Image: 14 × 17 1/2 in. (35.56 × 44.45 cm)
Mat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 60.96 cm)
67.32.5
Not on view
Bagnio was a term for a Turkish bathhouse, but could also refer to a bordello or similar establishment that lent rooms for private affairs. Here the count has discovered the unfaithful countess together with Silvertongue following a masquerade the couple attended together. The lawyer delivers the count a fatal wound before fleeing out the window. The squalid and ridiculous artwork in the room is meant to emphasize the depths to which the count has fallen.
Printed beneath image, lower left: "Invented Painted & Published by Wm. Hogarth"; lower right: "Engraved by R.F Ravenet/ According to Act of Parliament April 1st. 1745"; lower center: "Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V." Inscribed in graphite on verso: "Paulson 232 III/ 5"
The Council Graphic Arts Fund
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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