Death of the countess; Plate VI from marriage a la mode by William Hogarth (1697 – 1764). English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist. the Countess has committed suicide by overdosing on laudanum. Her deformed (syphilitic) child is held up by her nurse to kiss her dying mother, a doctor shakes the dim-witted servant who procured the poison, and her father draws her rings off her stiffening fingers'

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