Morning: The Four Times of Day

 
Morning: The Four Times of Day
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Series
The Four Times of the Day
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Materials
etching and engraving
Mark Descriptions
Plate inscribed: "Invented, Painted, Engraved, and Published by Wm. Hogarth, March 25, 1738 according to Act of Parliament"
Dimensions
18 x 14 7/8 in. (image) 20 7/8 x 16 7/8 in. (sheet)
Credit line
Purchased from the John Herron Fund
Accession number
11.20
Collection
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It is 6:55 a.m. by the clock in the pediment of the Church of St. Paul, Covent Garden. A prim lady makes her way to morning service and looks disapprovingly upon a knot of beggars and revelers, who ward off the cold in a variety of ways. Behind them, a brawl has broken out in Tom King’s Coffee House, a notorious local tavern open from midnight until morning.

Purchased with money from the John Herron Fund for the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art, in 1911.
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