"Which 18th century painter and engraver is famous for his works ""The Rake's Progress"" and ""Marriage la Mode""?"
Marriage A-la-Mode (Hogarth) Marriage A-la-Mode (Hogarth) Marriage A-la-Mode is a series of six pictures painted by William Hogarth between 1743 and 1745 depicting a pointed skewering of upper class 18th century society. This moralistic warning shows the disastrous results of an ill-considered marriage for money and satirises patronage and aesthetics. The pictures are exhibited in the National Gallery, London. This series of paintings were not received as well as his other moral tales, "A Harlot's Progress" (1732) and "A Rake's Progress" (1735), and when they were finally sold in 1751, it would be for a much lower sum than the artist had hoped
Marriage A-la-Mode (Hogarth) the engraver views it in a mirror as he undertakes the engraving. Hogarth was an engraver himself and disliked this course of action using mirrors, so unusually, he produced the paintings for Marriage à-la-mode already reversed so the engraver could directly copy them. It would normally be expected to view the series of prints moving from left to right and Hogarth would have taken this into account when composing the original paintings. Commentators have used a variety of names for the individual paintings, but as the paintings are presently in the National Gallery the names used there are used here.