"the lady's death" (after the painting in the national gallery); interior of a city merchant's house near london bridge with the countess dying in a chair, an execution broadside at her feet indicates that silvertongue has been hanged for killing her husband; 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 berates a simple-minded servant for procuring the laudanum with which the suicide has been effected and a doctor leaves by a door to right; the sparsely decorated room contrasts in every detail with the grand interior of plate ii of the series - chairs are heavy, the floor is bare, the clock is a simple weight-driven wall-clock, the paintings are dutch peasant subjects, and a set of ledgers indicates that accounts are kept up to date; a view of london bridge from the window. 1745
etching and engraving. Date: 1745. Dimensions: Height: 379 mm; Width: 458 mm (trimmed). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate VI (BM 1880,1113.1542)
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