Hogarth painting. "Marriage A-la-Mode: 5, The Bagnio" by William Hogarth (1697-1764), oil on canvas,

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This is the fifth scene of Hogarth’s series of six paintings titled Marriage A-la-Mode. After the masquerade, the Countess and her lover Silvertongue have taken a room above the Turk’s Head – a Turkish baths, or Bagnio. The scene is set at night by firelight; the Countess’s hooped underskirt, whalebone corset, fashionable shoes and mask have been discarded on the floor beside the rumpled four-poster bed. The Earl has burst into the room and been fatally stabbed by Silvertongue, who now flees in his nightshirt out of the open window

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Size: 6000px × 4616px
Photo credit: © IanDagnall Computing / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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