Night [graphic] / invented painted engraved & published by Wm. Hogarth, March 25, 1738 according to act of Parnt.

Edition:

[State 1].

Published/Created:

[London]
[Wm. Hogarth]
[25 March 1738]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 486 x 397 mm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2392
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 149
Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), no. 155

Notes:

Title engraved below image.
State and series from Paulson. Second in a series: Four times a day and Strolling actresses dressing in a barn.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).

Abstract:

"Scene near Charing Cross with le Sueur's equestrian statue of Charles I in the background and celebrations of the anniversary of the Restoration of Charles II (29 May, known as "Oak Apple Day"); in the foreground a drunken freemason (probably the corrupt magistrate Sir Thomas De Veil) is supported by a serving man; to left a barber is seen at work through a window, a chamber pot is being emptied from a window above and below a man and woman sleep beneath a wooden shelter and a link boy crouches beside them; to right the Salisbury Flying Coach has crashed while trying to avoid a bonfire in the middle of the street; shop and tavern signs include the barber's (advertising "Shaving Bleeding & Teeth Drawn wth. a Touch Ecce Signum"), the Rummer Tavern, the Earl of Cardigan, the Bagnio and the New Bagnio."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Four times of the day.

Associated Names:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Printmaker]
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist]

Topics:

Accidents
Barbering
Butchers
Carriages & coaches
Children
City & town life
De Veil, Thomas, Sir, 1684-1746
Fires
Freemasons -- England
Intoxication
Jacobites -- England
Kinn
Liquor laws -- Great Britain
Prostitution
Signs (Notices)
Sleeping
Taverns (Inns)

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1738
Etchings -- England -- London -- 1738
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1738

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Kinnaird 22K Box 305

Orbis Record:

9877047

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr22312

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

16030637

PID:

digcoll:2807154