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- Creator:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [March 1732]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 24K Box 305
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 28. Album of William Hogarth prints.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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
- Alternative Title:
- Midnight modern conuersation
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Printed in sepia ink; sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides: 350 x 471 mm.
- Publisher:
- Wm. Hogarth
- Subject (Topic):
- Bowls (Tableware), Clergy, Intoxication, Lawyers, Longcase clocks, Pipes (Smoking), Taverns (Inns), and Wine
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A midnight modern conversation [graphic]
