Title from item., Publication date inferred from state described in British Museum catalogue., For possible Hogarth attribution see Anecdotes of William Hogarth, written by himself. London : J.B. Nichols and son, 1833, p. 312., and Another state of No. 2024 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
The image is a copy of Hogarth's Midnight modern Conversation: 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 conversation
Description:
Title engraved below image. Text etched on separate plate and mounted below., Poem in four columns: Sacred to thee, permit this, lay, Thy labour, Hogarth, to display! ..., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 128., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand on separate sheet to the right of this print., and On page 65 in volume 1.
Title from item., Twelve lines of verse in three columns below image: Behold the monkey magistrate in state, With puss before him waiting for her fate ..., Later state, with the decade in publication date altered from '5' to '3.' Cf. No. 3275 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: watch house -- Lanterns -- Fireplaces with hood-like chimney -- Cat as a young woman -- Monkeys as humans -- Apes as constables -- Moonlight -- Magistrates -- Felt hats with feathers -- Constable's staff -- Flagons -- Candlesticks -- Tobacco pipes -- Watchmen.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Decemr. 24th 1734, by W. Tringham, the corner of the West Passage of the Royal Exchange in Castle Alley, London
Satire on Sir Robert Fagge, M.P. for Steyning, Susses and a Baronet, showing him on a poor-conditioned, thin horse offering a coin to a country woman in exchange for eggs that she carries in a basket
Description:
Title from published state. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top., For possible Hogarth attribution see: Anecdotes of William Hogarth, written by himself. London : J.B. Nichols and son, 1833, p. 312., Cf. No. 2023 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., Annotated on verso in an unidentified hand: original state., and Title, "Sr. R. Fagg & the Gypsy," added in an unidentified hand below image.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Sympson, print seller at the Dove in Russell Court Drury Lane
