Marriage à-la-mode. Plate 4. The toilette, William Hogarth, artist, 1745, Greater London, engraving, The fourth of a series of six engravings, based on paintings by William Hogarth (1743-45). The paintings are in the National Gallery, London. Hogarth commissioned three French expatriate specialist engravers 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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