Marriage A-la-Mode (Hogarth)
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Marriage A-la-Mode is a series of six pictures painted by William Hogarth between 1743 and 1745, intended as a pointed skewering of 18th-century society. They show the disastrous results of an ill-con
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1. The Marriage Settlement
2. The Tête à Tête
3. The Inspection
The Toilette, called The countess's morning levee on the frame, is the fourth canvas in the series of six satirical paintings known as Marriage A-la-Mode painted by William Hogarth.
Marriage A-la-Mode (Hogarth)
…approved by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris." This is a fictional page in a real series of publications put out by the academy. In the fourth, The Toilette (the name on its frame: The countess’s morning levee), the old earl has died, so the son is now the new earl and his wife is the countess. The countess…
Marriage A la Mode 4, The Toilette William Hogarth
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