A midnight modern conversation [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- A midnight modern conversation [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Midnight modern conuersation
- Creator
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- [March 1732]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Wm. Hogarth
- Abstract
-
A scene in a paneled room (in a public house?) with eleven men seated around a table in the center of which is a large punch-bowl decorated with Chinese figures. Wine bottles litter the floor and piled high on the mantelpiece. In the right corner a chamber pot overflows. One man in the foreground has fallen backwards off his chair; as he lands prostrate on the floor, one of his intoxicated companions staggers toward him, oblivious to the fact that his wine is spilling out over the prostrate man's head. The longcase clock shows the time as 4:00. See Paulson for suggested identities of the men depicted
- Description
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Title engraved below image.
State, publisher, and date from Paulson.
Six line poem engraved on either side of title: "Think not to find one meant Resemblance there ..."
On page 65 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 34.3 x 47 cm. - Provenance
- George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 344 x 472 mm, on sheet 445 x 610 mm
- Edition
- [State 3].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Plate 28. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, collector.
- Collection Date
- [England], [1732-1764]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1732
Engravings England London 1732
Etchings England London 1732 - Material
- etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Bowls (Tableware)
Clergy
Intoxication
Lawyers
Longcase clocks
Pipes (Smoking)
Taverns (Inns)
Wine - Subjects
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Bowls (Tableware)
Clergy
Intoxication
Lawyers
Longcase clocks
Pipes (Smoking)
Taverns (Inns)
Wine
England > 1732
England > London > 1732
Sotheby, Frederick Edward, 1837-1909 > Ownership
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9925567
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193921
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