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. An angel supports a banner that reads "et mon droit".
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., "Price one shilling.", and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 263 x 207 mm, on sheet 330 x 245 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Lust, Preaching, Religion, Religious services, and Sleeping
Copy of a Hogarth print: 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., Copy of No. 2285. See v. 3 of Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 140., and On page 81 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Lust, Preaching, Religion, Religious services, and Sleeping
Whitefield stands in a pulpit, his right arm slightly raised, delivering a sermon to an attentive audience, some of whom are taking notes
Description:
Title and publication date from a manuscript title in later hand below image., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., and Annotated on verso in contemporary hand: Fr Rufford Mad. Coll. Oxon. 1774.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770,
Subject (Topic):
Audience, Clergy, Churches, Preaching, and Pulpits