G1829: The Marriage Contract
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G1829
- People
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Designed, created and commissioned by William Hogarth, British (London 1697 - 1764 London)
Engraving assisted by Louis Gérard Scotin, French (1690 - after 1745)
- Title
- The Marriage Contract
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: Marriage à la Mode
Alternate Title: Marriage à la Mode, Plate 1. - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1745
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/256252
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Etching and engraving
- Dimensions
- 38.5 x 46.2 cm (15 3/16 x 18 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription: verso, graphite: Hogarth's painting of this
--- is in the Vernon Gallery
Magen T--------- Ip 363
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inscription: verso, graphite: Hogarth's painting of this
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
- iv/vii
- Standard Reference Number
- P. 228, BM Sat. 2688
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G1829
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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