A Midnight Modern Conversation, William Hogarth, between 1733 and 1738

Copy of a drinking scene with eleven men in a panelled room around a table on which is a punch-bowl decorated with chinese figures; wine bottles on the floor and mantelpiece and an overflowing chamber pot at lower right; after hogarth in same direction. C. 1733/8 engraving printed from two plates on two joined sheets of paper. Date: between 1733 and 1738. Dimensions: Height: 570 mm (irregular); Width: 873 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: John Banks. Collection: British Museum. A Midnight Modern Conversation (BM 1860,0623.80)