Marriage a la mode; plate I miserable A chair mender sitting outside

A chair mender sitting outside a house working on a seat

1824 from the Strand

with a stream running past them in the foreground

Proposal for roof covering quadrangle of the Royal Exchange

Ballad singers reciting songs or poems in the street

Marriage a la mode; plate I miserable A chair mender sitting outside'Marriage a la mode', 1745; plate I. The impoverished Lord Squanderfield has arranged a marriage between his son and the daughter of a wealthy alderman and merchant. Lord Squanderfield points to his family tree to emphasize his noble lineage. On the opposite side of the room his son sits taking snuff and looking with vanity into an adjacent mirror.