Gallery›Wellcome Collection›The countess, having taken a dose of laudanum nears death, and is kissed by her crippled child held towards her by an elderly maid; her father slips her ring from her finger. Engraving by Louis Gérard Scotin after William Hogarth, 1745.
The countess, having taken a dose of laudanum nears death, and is kissed by her crippled child held towards her by an elderly maid; her father slips her ring from her finger. Engraving by Louis Gérard Scotin after William Hogarth, 1745.
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The countess, having taken a dose of laudanum nears death, and is kissed by her crippled child held towards her by an elderly maid; her father slips her ring from her finger. Engraving by Louis Gérard Scotin after William Hogarth, 1745.

William Hogarth

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Marriage-a-la-mode, (plate vi). invented painted & published by Wm Hogarth. engraved by G. Scotin. according to act of parliament April 1st 1745

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