Title, date, and state from Paulson.
The 3rd state as described by Paulson, with the subscription ticket text eliminated, leaving only traces of the first line of text below image.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and mounted with two other prints by Hogarth on bound album leaf, 455 x 625 mm.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
First etched as a subscription ticket recording payments for Hogarth's print "A Midnight Modern Conversation", showing a group of seventeen men and boys rehearsing William Huggins's oratorio "Judith". Several of the singers hold sheet music with the notes and lyrics legible.