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Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen
A Midnight Modern Conversation

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Engraving by W. Hogarth showing eleven caricatured men in 18th-century dress crowded around a punch bowl in a chaotic late-night gathering, with figures slumped, gesturing, and collapsed on the floor

Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen, William Hogarth (after), A Midnight Modern Conversation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Irene Salinger in memory of her father, Adolph Stern, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen
Germany, Göttingen, 1765-1840
After
William Hogarth (after)
England, London, 1697-1764
Title
A Midnight Modern Conversation
Place Made
Germany
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 1/2 in. (18.73 × 24.13 cm) Image: 6 3/8 × 9 in. (16.19 × 22.86 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Irene Salinger in memory of her father, Adolph Stern
Accession Number
54.89.45
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph. Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche. Göttingen: Dieterich'schen Buchhandlung, 1794-1834.