Talk:Marriage A-la-Mode (Hogarth)

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Comments[edit]

Is this story fictitious? --Abdull 10:00, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe so. Cmyk 13:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Saint Sebastian painting in The Marriage Settlement[edit]

does anyone have any info on the saint sebastian painting on the wall in The Marriage Settlement??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.187.186.142 (talk) 07:00, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Still a stub?[edit]

Does this still meet the definition of a stub? Mdotley 18:12, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It really doesn't look that way. The only information I could imagine would also work is where all the paintings are now. The artist's page is really where the other stuff should go.

The Fourth Painting[edit]

What's the fourth painting showing?--ML5 12:43, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've added quite a bit to the description, so hopefully it is more understandable. Rickedmo 22:56, 4 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They are not ‘guests’ they are servants and tradesmen who would not normally be so bold as to be seated in the presence of their ‘betters’ or eat with them. Note the coachman and his whip. The man in curl papers is a footman. It’s another sign of the deterioration of the marriage. The bride is too young and/or lazy to run a household, and like all nouveau riche, treats servants as friends. The earl is singing bawdy ballads with a hired flautist, and we must remember in what low esteem musicians were then held. Hogarth has made him an ugly, common fellow, not a gentleman like Handel or Dr Burney. The woman is dressed in a vulgar manner not suitable for a drawing room, she may even be a dairymaid having her first excited experience of such a place and is dancing with delight to the earl’s scabrous song.

By the way, the expression is ‘oblivious of’, not ‘oblivious to’, and the bride is not snubbing them, the presence of this mob is part of her usual household slovenliness. 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:9C4C:32CD:1D17:94F7 (talk) 20:02, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sixth Painting[edit]

How do they know her husband has been hanged at Tyburn? It isn't shown on the painting Bananas 13:36, 17 May 2007 (UTC) shout at me for doing wrong![reply]

In the original painting, I'm sure you are able to read the headlines of the newspaper at the feet of the dead Countess and that refers to Tyburn. Also, the gallows at Tyburn were renounded (or is it "notorious"?) for having an unusual design - three vertical posts set in a triangle with three horizontal beams joining the tops. Such a gallows can be seen illustrated at the top of the newspaper on the floor. Hope that helps. Bt the way, it is only by reading this newspaper article in the original painting that we learn that the lawyer/lover is known as Councellor Silvertongue Rickedmo 01:28, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know about the painting, but in the engraving/print, it's very clearly the Tyburn tree and his last speech. 68.39.174.238 15:26, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Toilette[edit]

The link for the word "Toilette" doesn't lead to any article. Prince.timotheus 17:34, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

File:Marriage A-la-Mode 1, The Marriage Settlement - William Hogarth.jpg to appear as POTD soon[edit]

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Marriage A-la-Mode 1, The Marriage Settlement - William Hogarth.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on April 22, 2020. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2020-04-22. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:33, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The other five pictures in the series will appear as POTD over the next few months. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:35, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of the day

The Marriage Settlement is the first of a series of six oil-on-canvas paintings by English painter and pictorial satirist William Hogarth, created around 1743. The series, entitled Marriage A-la-Mode, depicts an arranged marriage and its disastrous consequences in a satire of 18th-century society, and is now in the collection of the National Gallery, London.

In this painting, a marriage is being arranged between the son of the bankrupt Earl Squanderfield and the daughter of a wealthy but miserly city merchant. Construction on the earl's new mansion, visible through the window, has stopped, and a usurer negotiates payment for further construction at the table in the centre. The gouty earl proudly points to a picture of his family tree, originating with William the Conqueror. The son views himself in a mirror, showing where his interests in the matter lie. The distraught merchant's daughter is consoled by the lawyer Silvertongue while polishing her wedding ring. Even the faces in the portraits on the walls appear to have misgivings. Two dogs chained to each other in the corner mirror the situation of the young couple.Painting credit: William Hogarth

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