In a richly decorated and carpeted interior, an obese clergyman with his equally large, bespectacled wife sit at a dining table with their three children; on the back wall hangs a portrait of the clergyman. He raises a wineglass to his lips as a servant uncorks another bottle of wine
Description:
Title from pencil inscription on verso., Date of production based on date of published mezzotint after this design., The daughter's face has been redrawn on a small piece of paper that has been pasted over the original sheet., and For a mezzotint engraving of this design, see no. 3753 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
Plate lettered in the top center 'G': Reverse copies of details from Hogarth's "A midnight modern conversation". Each item is numbered; 1. The man who, holding a tobacco-pipe, rises at the further side of the table; 2. The man without his wig who speaks aloud and, standing behind the cleryman, waves his drinking glass; 3. A man smiling and wearing a large wig; 4. The clergyman himself, with a pipe at his lips; 5. The drunken man who staggers in front of the table, emptying the bottle; 6. The bare-headed man who has fallen to the floor
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., and Plate prepared for: Manuel contentant diverses Connoissances curieuses et utile pour l'année 1786" in Göttingen.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Eating & drinking, Intoxication, Men, Pipes (Smoking), and Wigs