[The sleepy congregation] [graphic]

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Title: [The sleepy congregation] [graphic]
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 26 October 1736]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Copy of a Hogarth print: 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.
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.
On page 81 in volume 1.
Provenance: George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25.3 x 20 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1736
Etchings England London 1736
Material: etching with engraving ;
Subject (Topic): Clergy
Lust
Preaching
Religion
Religious services
Sleeping
Subjects: Clergy
Lust
Preaching
Religion
Religious services
Sleeping
England > 1736
England > London > 1736
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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