A countess's dress is inscribed with "Radicalism" and her lawyer (W.E. Gladstone) is pointing at a screen on which is written "verbosity, deception, lies". Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 31 October 1885, after W. Hogarth.

  • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Date:
31 October 1885
Reference:
565055i
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A parody of the fourth scene of Hogarth's Marriage à la mode. The singer on the left is William Vernon Harcourt, and the flautist behind him appears to be Joseph Chamberlain. A woman representing the Paris Commune wears a Phrygian cap as she is fed brimstone by a devil

Of the two portrait paintings on the left wall, the upper one represents Gladstone

Publication/Creation

[London] : [publisher not identified], 31 October 1885.

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 30.5 x 47 cm

Lettering

Marriage a la mode new series no. 4. St. Stephen's Review presentation cartoon October 31st 1885. Tom Merry del. et lith.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 565055i

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