Marriage à-la-mode. Plate 1. The marriage settlement, William Hogarth, artist, 1745, Greater London, engraving, The first of a series of six engravings, based on paintings by William Hogarth (1743-45). The original paintings are in the National Gallery, London. Hogarth commissioned three French expatriate specialist engravers (in this print Louis Gerard Scotin), as they were the finest practitioners of the medium in mid-18th century London. The importation of French fashions, manners and morals, which Hogarth considered effete and affected, is also satirised in the series.
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