Hogarth painting. "Marriage A-la-Mode: 3, The Inspection" by William Hogarth (1697-1764), oil on canvas,
The third scene in the series of six paintings by Hogarth titled Marriage A-la Mode is set in the consulting room of the French doctor M. de la Pillule. Viscount Squanderfield is accompanied by a sickly looking little girl and a woman who is probably the girl’s mother and madam. The child stands between the Viscount’s open legs, while he sits with a pill box beside his groin, suggesting that she is ‘his’ girl and that they are both there to be treated for a sexually transmitted disease. Brandishing his cane, the Viscount seems to be protesting that the doctor’s pills don't work. The pills are of black mercury, matching the black mark on the Viscount’s neck that Hogarth uses to denote syphilis. The doctor himself is riddled with the disease. His consulting room is full of extraordinary objects including machines for setting shoulders and drawing corks.
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