A sleepy congregation [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[February 1811]engA 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 congregationTitle 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.