The sleepy congregation [graphic]

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Title: The sleepy congregation [graphic]
Creator: Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1746 and 1766]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Abstract: The scene is the interior of a perpendicular Gothic church. The sand in the hourglass has run out, but the preacher continues to lecture, oblivious to the fact that his congregation has fallen asleep. The clerk below the pulpit eyes the bosom of the young woman sleeping in the lower right, fan in one hand and a book open to "... of Matrimony" about to slip from her fingers
Description: Title from caption below image.
Charles Corbet is one of the many pseudonyms of Richard Purcell. See Union List of Artists Names.
Copy of No. 2285. See v. 3 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 140.
Provenance: Print Shop; November 1958;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 355 x 251 mm, on sheet 365 x 262 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1746
Mezzotints England London 1746
Material: mezzotint ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Lust
Preaching
Religion
Religious services
Sleeping
Subjects: Clergy
Lust
Preaching
Religion
Religious services
Sleeping
England > 1746
England > London > 1746

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