While a barber dresses her hair the countess converses with Silvertongue the lawyer, who holds a ticket and points to a screen decorated with a masquerade; among the entourage are two black servants and a singer. Engraving by Simon Francois Ravenet, 1745.

William Hogarth

Lettering: Marriage-a-la-mode, (plateIV). invented painted & published by Wm Hogarth. engraved by S. Ravenet. according to act of parliament April 1st 1745.