William Hogarth | A Midnight Modern Conversation
William Hogarth
A Midnight Modern conversation c1740
Etching and engraving on laid paper
34 x 46.9cm
3rd state of three.
$1450
A midnight modern conversation is a social comment on the state of society in the upper classes in 18th century England. Drunk and rowdy these are the power merchants of the UK at the time.
The print when issued created both controversy and acclaim amongst his peers and his customers
A good dark impression trimmed just outside of the plate mark.
William Hogarth FRSA (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764).
An English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects" and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Familiarity with his work is so widespread that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".