View of the interior of Simon Ward alias St. Brewer Church Cornwall [graphic] / Rowlandson del. 1806.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > View of the interior of Simon Ward alias St. Brewer Church Cornwall [graphic] / Rowlandson del. 1806.
A quaint delineation of a church-interior during service; the pastor, who is somewhat of the Dr. Syntax type, is holding forth. There is a squire's pew, a rosy, sleepy clerk, a large leavening of fat slumberers (among the rest the sexton and pew-opener), a crowded gallery, worshippers both devout and careless, gazers through curiosity, and the usual elements which made up a grotesque-looking country congregation at the end of the last century, including a man with crutches and a peg leg.