From the pulpit a minister wearing eyeglasses (right) reads to his small, mostly asleep congregation a sermon from a pile of papers resting on a pillow: "He brews, ten and twelve!!" A sleepy-looking man with a bulbous nose and carbuncels (foreground, left) looks up and in a speech balloon above is head: And no bad stuff either let me tell you. I should like a to take a mug.
Description:
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Place and date of publication inferred from a reversed copy published by R. Ackermann. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 33., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership. and Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses. , Preaching., Religious services., and Sleeping.
From the pulpit a minister wearing eyeglasses (right) reads to his small, mostly asleep congregation a sermon from a pile of papers resting on a pillow: "He brews, ten and twelve!!" A sleepy-looking man with a bulbous nose and carbuncels (foreground, left) looks up and in a speech balloon above is head: And no bad stuff either let me tell you. I should like a to take a mug.
Description:
Date assigned by curator., For similar design see Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist v. 2, page 33., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title etched below image.
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, artist.
Subject (Topic):
Eyeglasses. , Preaching., Religious services., and Sleeping.
