IMAGE
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 :A midnight modern conversation. Wm Hogarth invt., prinxt. & sculpt. [1733]
- Date
- 1733
- Reference
- D-020-038
- Description
The scene shows antics of a group of twelve men at an all-night drinking party at a Gentleman's Club at 4am. Most are seated around a large table smoking and refilling their glasses from a large punch bowl. Empty gin bottles lie on the floor to the left and are stacked on the mantle-piece to the right. One man is falling flat on his face, another is being sick off to the side, and a third is stumbling, wig askew and spilling his drink. On the right a man is trying to light his tobacco pipe and sets his sleeve on fire. The men are weearing a variety of different wig.
Verse below - Think not to find one meant resemblance there....
Source of descriptive information - Jenny Uglow. Hogarth, a life and a world. London, 1997.
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title and caption
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Engraving, 346 x 470 mm, on sheet 485 x 652 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Hogarth, William 1697-1764 :The original works of William Hogarth. London, sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790 / Hogarth, William 1697-1764 :The original works of William Hogarth. London, sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Engraving, 346 x 470 mm, on sheet 485 x 652 mm
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