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The Lady’s Death is the sixth and final canvas in the series of satirical paintings known as Marriage à-la-mode painted by William Hogarth.The Countess has returned to her father’s house after her husband’s murder. The moral drama is concluded with her having moved from dissipation and vice to misery and shame and finally to terminating her existence by suicide after her lover is hanged at Tyburn for murdering her husband.
