Noon, William Hogarth, 1738

Scene in st giles's-in-the-fields with an elegant crowd leaving the french huguenot church contrasted with rowdy londoners outside a tavern with the sign of the good woman (one without a head); in the foreground, left, a black man embraces a servant girl and a small boy (evidently intended by his curly red hair to be identified as one of the irish inhabitants of the area) cries because he has broken a pie-dish. 1738 etching and engraving. Date: 1738. Dimensions: Height: 485 mm (plate mark); Height: 537 mm (sheet); Width: 400 mm (plate mark); Width: 442 mm (sheet). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Noon (BM 1868,0822.1547)