Ireland, John: Hogarth illustrated (Band 2,3): Nature (London, 1793)

SUPPLEMENT

HOGARTH ILLUSTRATED.

.SVkl-l' ;.iij pH.'iikitHv:". <:f '■■■■ ./;.''■.' .■■;('■ >- ■■■]' this work, tbe
following Description o,''M:irri..g'-« l;< '4::d\:ts,\isfo-'nd
among the papers of Mr Lane of HiHiagdon -, and bis
family believe it to be H.gjrtb's Expl^tutian, eiiber
copied from bis own b.iml u:rit,n<r. or given verbally
to Mr. Lane at tbe time be purchased tbe pictures.—
See Vol. II. p. 43.

EXPLANATION

MARRIAGE A LA MODE.

THE FIRST PICTURE.
A here is always a something wanting to make men happy.
—The great think themselves not sufficiently rich, and the
rich believe themselves not enough distinguished. This is
the case of the Alderman of London, and the motive which
makes him covet for his daughter the alliance of a great Lord;
who on his part does not consent thereto but on condition
of enriching his son, and this is what the painter calls Mar-
riage a la Mode.

These sort of marriages are truly but too common in
England, and it is moreover not [infrequent to see them
unhappy as they are ill chosen. The two figures of the