"An elegant young woman in a décolletée dress with bare arms, and a fat elderly monk (right) embrace. Their profiles are concealed behind the pillar supporting the double arch through which the confessional is seen."--British Museum online catalogue...
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Monks, Hugging, Confessionals, Columns, and Arches
"An adaptation of Gillray's 'Comfort to the Corns', British Museum Satires No. 9585. The old hag is altered to a rather younger woman, the wide hearth to a neat fireplace. The Gothic chair is replaced by a chair with a high cane back (of Charles II pe...
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Knives, Feet, Medical procedures & techniques, Cats, and Fireplaces
In a clear parody of Hogarth's "Sleeping Congregation" this scene in a dissenting chapel, shows the preacher leaning from the pulpit, his fist raised as he shouts to the congregation below. A squirrel sits on the canopy of pulpit gnawing on a nut. Wh...
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Celebrated and Reverend T. Screech Me Dead attacking the devil in his strong hold
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England.
Subject (Topic):
Dissenters, Religious, Chapels, Courtship, Dissenters, and Preachers
