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- Title:
- A Midnight Modern Conversation
- Date:
- ca. 1733, printed after 1779
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 5/8 × 17 3/4 inches (37.1 × 45.1 cm), Image: 13 1/4 × 17 5/8 inches (33.7 × 44.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "Kirkall | Modern Midnight | Conversation"
Lettered inside image, center left: "L. Journal | Craftsman"; center: "Freemans | Best"; below image, lower left: "Hogarth Pinx."; lower center: "A | Modern | Midnight Conversation | Who can this scene behold and not detest | The Vice of Drunkenness herein exprest? | An odious Sin that leads to all the rest; | Which so debauches & enslaves our Minds, | That every Lust an easy Conquest finds. | The Lacedemonians, in this beastly hue, | Expos'd their Slaves unto their Children's View, | That in their tender Minds it might impress | A Just Abhorrency of Drunkenness, | Just so this Piece the Folly well derides; | Bacchus, we see, in various Shapes presides: | All but th' Hip Doctor and the Justice here: | The Pious Painter has made drunk appear"; lower right: "E. Kirkall fecit | Printed for R. Wilkinson at No.58 in Cornhill."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.1321
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bottles | candlesticks | clock | conversation piece | drinking | food | furniture | genre subject | lemons | midnight | wine
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:23170
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