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Marriage à-la-mode, pl. 4

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Title from catalogue raisonné.Alternative title from item.Paulson: 161Date from item.Invented Painted & Published by Wm. Hogarth. Engraved by S. Ravenet.Paulson, Ronald. "Hogarth's Graphic Works." The Print Room, 1989, London.A grand bedroom with the countess holding a morning levée attended by her hairdresser while the lawyer, Silvertongue, arranges to meet her at a masquerade. Others in the room include a female friend and men who pay attention to a castrato singer accompanied by a flautist, a young black man who serves chocolate to the party, and a small black boy who points to the horns of a figure of Actaeon.
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