A sleepy congregation [graphic]

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Title: A sleepy congregation [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [February 1811]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Abstract: A rotund clergyman stands (center) in his pulpit preaching from a book set on a plush pillow while the congregation sleeps below him. All the figures are highly caricatured except for a pretty young woman in the right foreground and a young man who is handsome but very large like most of the congregation
Description: Title etched below image.
Probably a later state; date has been burnished from imprint statement, leaving a gap between "Pubd." and "by Thos. Tegg ..." in which only a lightly printed "181" is still visible.
Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shilling coloured."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xii, p. 8.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36 x 25 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 811.02.00.01+
Collection Title: V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1811
Etchings England London 1811
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Churches
Clergy
Pews
Preaching
Sleeping
Subjects: Churches
Clergy
Pews
Preaching
Sleeping
England > 1811
England > London > 1811
1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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