A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1731, after himself.

1731

1 print : engraving ; image and text 34.8 x 50.1 cm

A midnight modern conversation. Wm. Hogarth invt. pinxt & sculpt. Think not to find one meant resemblance / there we lash the vices but the persons spare / prints should be prizd as authors should be read / who sharply smile prevailing folly dead / so Rabilaes laught, & so Cervantes thought / so nature dictated what art has taught.

R. Paulson, Hogarth's graphic works, 3 ed., London 1989, no. 128, pp. 84-85

Wellcome Collection 24847i