Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate III, William Hogarth, 1823

Copy of "the inspection" (after the painting in the national gallery); interior of a dispensary where the viscount has brought his child-mistress to visit m. De la pillule whose remedy has not cured her venereal disease; a large, well-dressed woman (perhaps a procuress) looks angrily at the young man and opens a knife, while the quack polishes his glasses; the room contains numerous medical and scientific objects, including machines for straightening shoulders and for drawing corks, a dried crocodile, a narwhal's tusk, and two mummies; after hogarth; illustration for john young's 'catalogue of the celebrated collection of pictures of. John julius angerstein'. 1823 etching and engraving. Date: 1823. Dimensions: Height: 225 mm; Width: 290 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: John Young. Collection: British Museum. Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate III (BM 1860,1208.126)