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1. A sleepy congregation [graphic]
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [February 1811]
- Call Number:
- 811.02.00.01+
- Collection Title:
- V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A rotund clergyman stands (center) in his pulpit preaching from a book set on a plush pillow while the congregation sleeps below him. All the figures are highly caricatured except for a pretty young woman in the right foreground and a young man who is handsome but very large like most of the congregation
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Probably a later state; date has been burnished from imprint statement, leaving a gap between "Pubd." and "by Thos. Tegg ..." in which only a lightly printed "181" is still visible., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue and Grego., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., Also issued separately., "Price one shilling coloured.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
- Subject (Topic):
- Churches, Clergy, Pews, Preaching, and Sleeping
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A sleepy congregation [graphic]
