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| Marriage a la Mode— | |
| Plate I. The Marriage Settlement, | [Frontispiece] |
| Plate II. The Viscount and his Lady at Home, | [24] |
| Plate III. The Viscount's Visit to the Quack Doctor, | [28] |
| Plate IV. The Countess's Morning Levee, | [36] |
| Plate V. The Husband killed in a Bagnio, | [40] |
| Plate VI. Death of the Countess, | [44] |
| First Stage of Cruelty, | [54] |
| Second Stage of Cruelty, | [56] |
| Cruelty in Perfection, | [58] |
| The Reward of Cruelty, | [62] |
| Beer Street, | [66] |
| Gin Lane, | [68] |
| Paul before Felix (Burlesqued), | [74] |
| Paul Preaching before Felix, | [76] |
| The Same—Another Engraving, | [78] |
| Moses and Pharaoh's Daughter, | [82] |
| Four Prints of an Election— | |
| Plate I. The Entertainment, | [88] |
| Plate II. Canvassing for Votes, | [98] |
| Plate III. The Polling, | [106] |
| Plate IV. Chairing the Member, | [112] |
| The March to Finchley, | [122] |
| The Invasion— | |
| Plate I. France, | [140] |
| Plate II. England, | [142] |
| The Cockpit, | [146] |
| Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism, | [160] |
| The Times— | |
| Plate I., | [180] |
| Plate II., | [208] |
| John Wilkes, Esq., | [222] |
| The Rev. C. Churchill, | [228] |
| Boys Peeping at Nature (2 Plates), | [244] |
| The Laughing Audience, | [246] |
| The Lecture, | [250] |
| The Orchestra, | [254] |
| The Company of Undertakers, | [258] |
| Character and Caricature, | [266] |
| Sarah Malcolm, | [268] |
| Columbus Breaking the Egg, | [276] |
| The Five Orders of Periwigs, | [284] |
| The Bench, | [290] |
| The Beggars' Opera, | [292] |
| The Indian Emperor, | [300] |
| The Bathos, | [312] |
HOGARTH ILLUSTRATED.
MARRIAGE A LA MODE.
"'Tis from high life our characters are drawn."
In his preceding prints Mr. Hogarth generally pointed his satire at persons in a subordinate situation, and took his examples from the inferior ranks of society. From the situation of his characters, and the minute precision with which he displayed the scenes he professed to delineate, we sometimes see little violations of that decorum which is perhaps necessary in engravings professedly designed for furniture. For this neglect of delicacy some of his prints were censured; to remove all apprehensions of this series being liable to the same objections, they were thus announced in the London Daily Post of April 7, 1743:—