A crowd of rotund stock brokers sit and stand around a table and against a wall with a clock. The broker centered in the front reads from a copy of the Gazette Extraordinary while some of the others peer over his shoulders looking for news, many where glasses and one uses a glass to read the print on the page. To his left at the table is a broker holding bank stock in his right hand, and another broker knocking over a bottle of Madeira at the table
Alternative Title:
Gazette extraordinary
Description:
Title etched below image., Artist attribution to Dighton from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1318., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published 29 April 1795 by Haines & Son, No. 19, Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses, Intoxication, Newspapers, Optical devices, and Stockbrokers
"Two men sit beside a blazing fire in a well-furnished room, overcome by drink, and fast asleep. One, a stout officer in regimentals, wearing a cocked hat, seated in an arm-chair (right), has thrust his wooden leg into the fire, where it is burning. The ashes of his pipe fall on to the tail of a dog asleep under his chair. His companion sits (left) supporting his head on his elbow, which rests on a round table on which are a punchbowl, glasses, and a candle, in which his wig is burning. On the wall (left) is a framed plan of fortifications."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bon companions
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified by the repository based on the original drawing in the Huntington Library., One of a series of 'Drolls.', and Watermark (partial): fleur-de-lis.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 15th, 1790, by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd according to act of Parlmt., Aug. 26, 1747.
Call Number:
747.08.26.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An intoxicated young man walks to the right, his eyes shut and head slumped to one side. He is supported by an older woman, his arm over her shoulders, as she holds his hat in her left hand. A younger woman on the man's right is picking his pocket with her left hand as, with her right hand, she gracefully lifts her skirts above the cobblestone street. A link-boy with a torch leads the way to the right. In the distance another link-boy is running also toward the right. In the distance is a statue of Charles I on horseback
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Possibly based on the character of the Irish Teague from Sir Robert Howard's play, The committee. See Goodwin.
Publisher:
Sold by T. Jefferys at the corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross and W. Herbert at the Golden Globe on London Bridge
Subject (Name):
Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698
Subject (Topic):
Children, Ethnic stereotypes, Intoxication, and Pickpockets
Image divided into six scenes captioned individually: Dizzy; Foolish; Evidently inebriated; Considerably intoxicated; Uncommon drunk; Indisputedly dead drunk!
Alternative Title:
Six gradations of a drunkard
Description:
Title from heading etched above image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title printed in letterpress below plate line., Three paragraphs of text and printer's line printed in letterpress below title: Generous and exhilarating Bacchus, pour down, I beseech thee, ..., Printmaker from unverified data from card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching with stipple engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 42.4 x 25.5 cm, Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printer's line., and Watermark: J. Ruse.
Publisher:
Pub'd. June 4th, 1801, by R. Ackermann, No. 101 Strand
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.
"A drunken orgy by the members of a convivial club, grouped round an oblong table in a dignified room, which suggests a fashionable society. The chairman (left) with raised hammer gives a toast which is drunk sitting. Most are jovial, three are vomiting, one over a prostrate member. An elderly man protests angrily; his neighbour tries to make him sit down. The room is lit by a chandelier hanging from an ornate ceiling. A servant draws a cork, another enters with a punchbowl from behind a screen (right). Bottles stand in a magnificent wine-cooler, round which empty bottles are massed. The members' hats are piled on an ornate chimney-piece; a Jew reaches over a low screen to take a hat, unaware hat a member has risen to denounce him. This screen is in front of a 'Ballotin Box', with two round apertures inscribed 'Nay' and 'yea'. On the wall (left) is a placard: 'Rules to be observed in this Society, Ist That each Member shall fill a half pint Bumper to the first Toast. 2nd That after Twenty four Bumper toasts are gone round, every [sic] may fill as he pleases. 3 That any Member refusing to comply with the above Regulations to be fine a bumper of Salt & Water'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"Satire on a drunken farmer in Worcestershire accompanying a letter from "S. P." published in the Oxford Magazine. A portly farmer is shown assisted home from the tavern (in the background) by two thinner men and is greeted by his angry wife, daughters and various farm animals. On the wall of the farmhouse are two nesting 'bottles' designed for birds."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), p. 25., Temporary local subject terms: Fowl: rooster., and Mounted to 28 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Donkeys, Farmers, Farms, Intoxication, and Swine
