A Midnight Modern Conversation

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After William Hogarth
A Midnight Modern Conversation
oil on canvas
11¾ x 16 in. (29.8 x 40.8 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Hogarth designed and engraved this subject in 1732/1733. The room is thought to be St. John's Coffee-house in Shire Lane, Temple Bar near the Law Courts in London, and in it Hogarth satirises all the degrees of drunkenness.

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