Plate 28. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
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., Six line poem engraved on either side of title: "Think not to find one meant Resemblance there ...", and 1 print : etching with engraving, on laid paper ; plate mark 347 x 472 mm, on sheet 472 x 611 cm.
