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 devised by cataloger.Series title and number engraved below image.State from Paulson.After the painting "The Lady's Death" in the National Gallery, London.Sheet trimmed to plate mark.1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 38.6 x 46.2 cm, on sheet 45 x 56 cm.Leaf 21 in: Album of William Hogarth prints.