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: 355 mm (printed area); Height: 311 mm; Width: 262 mm (printed area); Width: 485 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. A Midnight Modern Conversation (BM Cc,2.105)