Plate lettered in the top center 'L': Reverse copies of details of three men after characters around the table on the right in Hogarth's first plate in Election entertainment. Each figure is numbered; 1. A distraught looking man with his wig askew. 2, 3. A doctor wipes the forehead of a man seated before him, eyes closed, appparently ill from eating oysters (as seen in the Hogarth original).
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other prints in the series in the British Museum online catalogue., Plates from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Doctors, Political elections, Wigs, and Taverns (Inns)
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