The sleepy congregation [graphic]

Description

Title: The sleepy congregation [graphic]
Creator: Spooner, Charles, 1720-1767, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1736]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A view of the interior of a church where the congregation (right) sleeps as the clergyman in his pulpit reads from the gospel (Matthew); below him the clerk eyes the exposed bosom of a young woman asleep on the left; above the stained-glass windows a cupid hovers with his bow. After Hogarth
Description: Title from caption below image.
State with the cherub roughly sketched in and no text in the banner that he holds.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 154 x 120 mm, on sheet 177 x 141 mm
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1811
Etchings England London 1811
Material: mezzotint with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Caricatures
Cherubs
Clergy
Churches
Obesity
Pews
Preaching
Religious services
Sleeping
Subjects: Caricatures
Cherubs
Clergy
Churches
Obesity
Pews
Preaching
Religious services
Sleeping
England > 1811
England > London > 1811

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