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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1831
People
Designed and engraved by (After) William Hogarth, British (London 1697 - 1764 London)
After Bernard Baron (Paris 1700 - 1762 London)
Engraving assisted by Bernard Baron (Paris 1700 - 1762 London)
Title
Earl Squanderfield Visits a Quack Apothecary
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Marriage à la Mode, Plate 3.
Series/Book Title: Marriage à la Mode
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1745
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/256244

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
image: 35.3 × 44.4 cm (13 7/8 × 17 1/2 in.)
plate: 38.9 × 46.6 cm (15 5/16 × 18 3/8 in.)
sheet: 42.5 × 50.8 cm (16 3/4 × 20 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, in plate: Invented Painted & Published by W.mHogarth
  • inscription: lower center, in plate: Marriage A-la-Mode, (Plate III)
  • inscription: lower right, in plate: Engraved by B. Baron/According to Act of Parliament April 1st. 1745

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/iii
Standard Reference Number
P. 230, BM Sat. 2717

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1831
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edouard Kopp, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Kristel Smentek, ed., Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), pp. 195-197, repr. p. 195 (detail) and p. 197 as fig. 1

Verification Level

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