Print made by Bernard Baron, 1696–1762, Frenchafter William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Title:
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate II: The Breakfast Scene
Date:
1745
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 1/4 × 18 3/8 inches (38.7 × 46.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, center right: "Ledger"; lower center: "Boyle | on | Whist."; below image, lower center: "Marriage-A-la-Mode, (Plate II)"; lower left: "Invented Painted & Published by Wm. Hogarth"; lower right: "Engraved by B. Baron"; lower right: "According to Act of Parliament April 1st 1745"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.1432
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
dinner | meal | food
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Matthew Craske, Conversations and Chimneypieces: the imagery of the hearth in eighteenth-century English family portraiture, British Art Studies, Issue 2, Spring 2016, pages are unnumbered, fig. 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02/mcraskeJacqueline Riding, Hogarth's Britons, 2023, p.49, NJ18 H67 A12 2023 (YCBA)