Marriage a-la-mode. [graphic] / Plate VIScotin, Louis Gérard, 1690-, printmakeraccording to act of parliament, April 1st, 1745.engThe countess is shown swooning in a chair in her father's house near London Bridge (seen through the window on the left). At her feet a bottle with a label "laudanum" alongside an execution broadside tells us that Silvertongue has been hanged for killing her husband and that she has attempted suicide. Her young child (wearing a leg brace as a result of congenital syphilis) is held up for a last kiss by an old woman, while her father removes her wedding ring. An apothecary strikes the simple-minded servant for procuring the laudanum; a doctor leaves by a door to right. Fire buckets line the hallway. The floor of the room is bare; a heavy chair near a table is overturned, a starving dog chewing at the calf's head on the table. Other decorations include a weight-driven wall-clock, the paintings of Dutch peasant subjects and a man relieving himself against a wall, and a set of ledgers indicates that accounts are kept up to dateTitle etched below image.1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.3 x 46.6 cm, on sheet 46 x 59 cm.Plate 21 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.