Interior with the countess dying in a chair, Marriage A-la-Mode, plate VI (title on object), Unhappy marriage (series title), Marriage A-la-Mode (series title), At the feet of the countess lies a news article stating that Silvertongue was hanged for killing her husband. Her young child is lifted up by an old woman to give her a last kiss. The child has syphilis, as can be seen from the dark spot on her face and the splint on her leg. The countess's father removes her wedding ring. A pharmacist grabs a clerk by the collar and points to a bottle of laudanum with which the countess committed

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