Plate lettered in the top center 'G': Reverse copies of details from Hogarth's "A midnight modern conversation". Each item is numbered; 1. The man who, holding a tobacco-pipe, rises at the further side of the table; 2. The man without his wig who speaks aloud and, standing behind the cleryman, waves his drinking glass; 3. A man smiling and wearing a large wig; 4. The clergyman himself, with a pipe at his lips; 5. The drunken man who staggers in front of the table, emptying the bottle; 6. The bare-headed man who has fallen to the floor
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., and Plate prepared for: Manuel contentant diverses Connoissances curieuses et utile pour l'année 1786" in Göttingen.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Eating & drinking, Intoxication, Men, Pipes (Smoking), and Wigs
Plate lettered in the top center 'H': Reverse copies of details from Hogarth's "A midnight modern conversation". Each item is numbered; 1. The fat man with the linen cap on his head, who sits stolidly smoking; 2. The back of the head of the man behind the last; 3. The man who, seen in profile at the side of the picture, sits and sleeps soundly, with his arms folded; 4. The gentleman in the bag-wig, who is about to vomit; 5. The neighbor of the last, who is endeavoring to light his pipe
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., and Plate prepared for: Manuel contentant diverses Connoissances curieuses et utile pour l'année 1786" in Göttingen.
