Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate I
Medium
Etching and engraving; fifth state of five
Dimensions
Plate: 15 1/4 x 18 5/8 in. (38.7 x 47.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891
Accession Number
91.1.107
Tags
MenWomen
About the Artist
William Hogarth|Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin · 1697–1764
William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an English painter, printmaker, and pictorial satirist who became the first great English-born artist to attract admiration abroad. Born into poverty in London, the son of a failed schoolmaster who was imprisoned for debt, Hogarth's early experiences with the harsh realities of 18th-century urban life profoundly shaped his artistic vision. After apprenticing with si...