A Midnight Modern Conversation, William Hogarth, between 1733 and 1750
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; with vine trellises along the two sides and french verses below; after hogarth in same direction. Engraving with etching. Date: between 1733 and 1750. Dimensions: Height: 331 mm (trimmed); Width: 490 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. A Midnight Modern Conversation (BM 1900,1231.1616)