A view of the interior of a church where the congregation (right) sleeps as the clergyman in his pulpit reads from the gospel; he uses a magnifying glass to read the text; an hour glass extends from the side of the pulpit. Below the clergyman sits the clerk who holds his eyeglasses in his hand and eyes the exposed bosom of a young woman asleep on the left rather than the volume before him. The young woman's holds in her hands a fan and book open to the word "matrimony". Above the stained-glass windows a cupid hovers with his bow
Alternative Title:
Congregation tout endormi
Description:
Title from caption below image., Copy of the print by William Hogarth., and Mounted to 285 x 219 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Clergy, Churches, Pews, Preaching, Religious services, and Sleeping
