Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Print made by William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British
Title:
A Midnight Modern Conversation
Date:
1733
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 17 7/8 inches (32.7 × 45.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.1409
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
bottles | candlesticks | wine | furniture | food | conversation piece | midnight | lemons | genre subject | clock | drinking
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Matthew Craske, Conversations and Chimneypieces: the imagery of the hearth in eighteenth-century English family portraiture, British Art Studies, Issue 2, Spring 2016, pages are unnumbered, fig. 12, Available Online (Orbis) http://dx.doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02/mcraske

Dwight P. Lanmon, The golden age of English glass, 1650-1775, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2011, pp. 48, 49, fig. 26, NK5143 L35 2011 + (YCBA)

Jacqueline Riding, Hogarth's Britons, 2023, p.14, NJ18 H67 A12 2023 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41994