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- Title:
A Midnight Modern Conversation
- Date:
- ca. 1732
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 30 × 64 1/2 inches (76.2 × 163.8 cm), Frame: 38 1/4 × 71 inches (97.2 × 180.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "WM: Hogarth: fecit: 1729"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.351
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.351FR
- Subject Terms:
- bottles | candlesticks | clock | conversation piece | drinking | food | furniture | genre subject | lemons | midnight | wine
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:841
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Vic Gatrell, The first bohemians, life and art in London's golden age , Allen Lane, London, 2013, pp. 145, 180-82, 197, 249, pl. 10, NX544.L6 G37 2013 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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Charles Saumarez Smith, Eighteenth-century decoration: design and the domestic interior in England, , Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1993, p. 101, no. 83, NK2043 A1 S28 1993 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Simon Schama, The Yale Centre for British Art, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, , May 20, 1977, p. 619, TLS Historical Archive [ORBIS]
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Julia Skelly, Addiction and British visual culture, 1751-1919 : wasted looks, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, Surrey, 2014, p. 44, N8251.S555 S59X 2014 (LC) (SML) [ORBIS]
Jennifer S. Uglow, Hogarth, a life and a world , Faber and Faber, London, 1997, pp. 177-78, 230-31, 236, 265, fig. 49, NJ18 H67 U35 1997 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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