Marriage à-la-mode: 3. The Inspection

Marriage à-la-mode: 3. The Inspection
Artist William Hogarth
Year 1743
Type Oil on canvas
Dimensions 69.9 cm × 90.8 cm (27.5 in × 35.7 in)
Location National Gallery, London

The Inspection is the third canvas in the series of six satirical paintings known as Marriage à-la-mode painted by William Hogarth.

The viscount, suffering from syphilis, makes a visit to a French doctor.

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Other paintings in the Marriage à-la-mode series

References

  1. Lichtenberg, Georg (January 1798). "1". In Wensinger, Arthur S. and W. B. Coley. Hogarth on High Life (1 ed.). Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. p. 57. The Doctor's collection, commenting as it does both historically and prophetically on his career, might be interpreted as follows: he began as a beard trimmer; graduated to piss-analyst; barely skirting the gallows (by virtue of his curative powers) he grabbed for himself a doctor's hat; and is now counting on a knighthood, if he has not one already Check date values in: |year= / |date= mismatch (help);

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