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- Title:
- A Midnight Modern Conversation
- Date:
- 1733
- Materials & Techniques:
- Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 5/8 × 18 3/4 inches (34.6 × 47.6 cm), Plate: 13 3/8 × 18 1/2 inches (34 × 47 cm), Image: 12 7/8 × 17 7/8 inches (32.7 × 45.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, center right: "Freemans | Best"; center right: "London Journall | The | Craftsman"; below image, lower center: "A MIDNIGHT MODERN CONVERSATION | Wm. Hogarth Invt. Pinxt & Sculpt. --"; lower left: "Think not to find one meant Resemblance there | We lash the Vices but the Persons spare | Prints should be prizd as Authors should be read"; lower right: "Who sharply smile prevailing Folly dead | So Rabilaes Laught, & so Cervantes Thought | So Nature dictated what Art has Taught."
- 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 | clock | conversation piece | drinking | food | furniture | genre subject | lemons | midnight | wine
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41994
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- JSON
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, http://dx.doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-02/mcraske [Website]
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) [YCBA]
Jacqueline Riding, Hogarth's Britons, 2023, p.14, NJ18 H67 A12 2023 (YCBA) [YCBA]