Marries an Old Maid, 1735

  • William Hogarth, English, 1697-1764

Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 14 × 16 inches (35.6 × 40.6 cm) Sheet: 18 1/2 × 23 inches (47 × 58.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund

72.230

Inscribed in plate, center bottom edge: Invented Painted & Engrav'd by Wm Hogarth & Publish'd June ye. 25 1735. According to Act of Parliament.- Lower right corner: Plate 5. Bottom margin: [five verses, two lines per verse (as described by Paulson)]

1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

William Hogarth, Marries an Old Maid, 1735, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, 72.230.