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., and Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Cherubs, Clergy, Churches, Obesity, Pews, Preaching, Religious services, and Sleeping
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 fully formed with aquatint and text in the banner that he holds "Dieu et mon"., and Publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures, Cherubs, Clergy, Churches, Obesity, Pews, Preaching, Religious services, and Sleeping
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1746 and 1766]
Call Number:
Hogarth 765.00.00.38+ Box 200
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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., Charles Corbet is one of the many pseudonyms of Richard Purcell. See Union List of Artists Names., Copy of No. 2285. See v. 3 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 140.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Lust, Preaching, Religion, Religious services, and Sleeping
Manuscript on parchment in two parts. Part I: Pseudo-Bede, Commentarius in Psalmos. Due to the loss of quires or leaves the following parts are missing: Ps. 23:1-31:6; Ps. 44:14-50:21; Ps. 88:48-95:10; Ps. 131:8-147:14. The contents of the first quire, which is equally lost, is unknown. Written at the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo. Part II: Unidentified definitions and theological and ethical discussions of Biblical terms and quotations without apparent order, on behalf of preachers
Description:
In Latin., Script: Part I (ff. 1-113): Written by various hands close to each other in small late Carolingian script, with sudden changes in the shade of ink and sometimes badly following the lines. The handwriting on ff. 77-84 (quire XI) and ff. 112-113 (quire XVI) has markedly different features. Part II (ff. 114-133): Written by a single hand in tiny Southern Gothica Textualis Currens, at different times and in many different ink shades. The scribe opens both quires with "Sancti Spiritus assit nobis gratia" in the upper margin., Part I: The very simple decoration is uneven and consists of plain Romanesque initials, 2 or 3 lines, in red ink; on f. 41r (Ps. 51) 5 lines; many initials are not executed or later coarsely added in black ink. Part II: Undecorated., and Binding: Fifteenth century. Brown sheepskin over heavy unbevelled wooden boards, blind-tooled with triple fillets. Spine with three raised bands.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Pseudo-Bede. and Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Preaching
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 46 Box D215
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A dour woman wearing a feathered headdress stands before a preacher and his clerk as they exclaim respectively, "O Lord, save this lady, thy servant" followed by "Who putteth her ladyship's trust in thee."
Alternative Title:
Churching a lady
Description:
Title inscribed in the artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist., and Date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Great Britain, Preaching, Religious services, and Churches
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669, printmaker
Published / Created:
[19th century]
Call Number:
Print00980
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
La petite tombe
Description:
Title supplied by curator., 19th century restrike. Original work created: 1652., See Bartsch, A. Le Peintre-graveur, no. 67., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Preaching, Spectators, Spiritual leaders, and Children
Title and publication date from the British Museum Catalogue., Earlier state of No. 1541 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Mounted to 30 x 20 cm.
A traveling preacher stands before a crowd of citizens, vendors, and soldiers on a busy city street. He is pointing to a series of images of the crucifixion on the interior of the cover of his large traveling case; on the inside is what appears to be a statue of a martyr or Christ, hands bound, with two angels kneeling in prayer on either side. Signs in the form of playing cards hang from the eaves of the building. A woman in wooden shoes carries her wares (pears?) on a platform suspended round her waist
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Possibly by Charles Parrocel?, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 35 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Cobblestone streets, Crucifixions, Preaching, and Street vendors
Title supplied by cataloger., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title supplied by cataloger., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. i., Numbered in lower right of plate: 127., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
