<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>View of the interior of Simon Ward alias St. Brewer Church Cornwall [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>[1806]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>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</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Date of publication scored through on plate but legible. Cf. Grego for date confirmation.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed to edge of plate mark on lower side.</dc:description><dc:description>Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>