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
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication scored through on plate but legible. Cf. Grego for date confirmation., Sheet trimmed to edge of plate mark on lower side., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and Cornwall.
Subject (Topic):
Churches, lergy, Interiors, Peg legs, Sleeping, and Religious meetings
