Plate 23. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works. Leaf 23. Album of William Hogarth prints.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The second print in the series "Four Times of the Day" is set outside St Giles's-in-the-Fields. On the right an elegant crowd leaves the French Huguenot church; they are dressed in the height of French fashion. Two women kiss on the far right in the customary French way. They are contrasted with Londoners on the left. The two groups are separated by a gutter down the middle of the road; a dead cat lies in the gutter foreground. The Londoners stand outside a tavern with the sign of the Good Woman (one without a head); a woman and man in the second-storey window look surprised as the contents of her bowl are tossed out the window. In the foreground, left, under a sign with John the Baptist's head on a platter and reading "Good Eating", a black man embraces a servant girl and a small boy (evidently intended by his curly red hair to be identified as one of the Irish inhabitants of the area) cries because he has broken a pie-dish. A little girl squats as she eats the fallen pie off the ground. The clock in the steeple in the background reads 12:30.
Alternative Title:
Four times a day. Noon
Description:
Title engraved below image. and State and series from Paulson. Second in a series: Four times a day and Strolling actresses dressing in a barn.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Huguenots, Irish, Blacks, Children, City & town life, Churches, Couples, Crowds, Crying, Kissing, Servants, Signs (Notices), Taverns (Inns), and Women
