NON-SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
(British Drawings and Prints of Two Centuries – Plus a Few Precursors)
- Laroon, The Quarrel
- Hollar, Glastoniensis
- Hollar, Landscape with Herdsmen
- Smith, Mr. Will: Richards
- Hogarth, Southwark Fair
- Smith, The Virgin Mary
- Hogarth, Midnight Modern
- Robinson, Banquet Piece
- att. to Vanderbank, Senesino
- Beauclerk, Street Musicians
- Haward, Mrs. Siddons
- Gillray, Comfort to the Corns
- Cheesman, The Seamstress
- Anonymous, Diamond
- Rowlandson, Gaffers
- Bartolozzi, Miss Farren
- Anonymous, Beatrice Fishing
- Say, Miss Mellon
- Rowlandson, The Poacher
- Smith, Narcissa
- Cruikshank, The Cholic
- Vendramini, Strawberrys, Scarlet
- Cruikshank, A Catalanian PicNic
- Morland, Peasants Resting
- Cruikshank, Sales by Auction!
- Daniell, Joseph Haydn
- Williams, Leap Year
- Finch, In the Park
- Cruikshank, A Consultation
- Anonymous, Duck Shooting
- Heath, A Pleasant Draught
- O’Neill, The Mill
- Cruikshank, Hint to the Blind
- Craig, Trees
- Heath, Blessing of Cheap Cider
- Calvert, The Brook
- Calvert, Cottage and Trees
- Lisle, I’d be a butterfly
- Palmer, Early Plowman
- Leitch, Shepherd
- Whistler, La Vieille aux Loques
- Haden, A Water Meadow
- Whistler, The Brothers
- Cameron, The Palace
- Strang, The Cause of the Poor
- Detmold, Long-Eared Bat
- Detmold, Phoenix
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7. William Hogarth (1697-1764) A Midnight Modern Conversation |
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A Midnight Modern Conversation
Etching and engraving, 1732-33, Paulson 128 iii/iii, 345 x 470 mm. Fine impression, probably of the late eighteenth-century, on laid paper with large margins; a printer’s crease in the bottom margin just crosses the platemark into the text. The scene is a private room in a tavern, the time is four o’clock in the morning, and the title of the print is ironic, since conversation is hardly the purpose of this gathering; drinking is. Hogarth pictures every variety of inebriation, from contented gaiety to falling-down drunk – and note the gentleman on the right who, with a candle flame, ignites his sleeve rather than his pipe. Hogarth’s text warns that no specific person is represented here (“We lash the vices but the Persons spare”), but commentators have identified several of them as Hogarth’s friends. Exceedingly broad-minded friends they must have been.
