"Satire on the financial scandal of the South Sea Bubble; a composite scene in the City of London identified by the Guildhall, St Paul's Cathedral and the Monument (its inscription changed to record the destruction of the city by the South Sea); a cro...
Description:
Title, state, and date from Paulson.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, Financial crises, History, Allegories, Clergy, Crowds, Devil, Ethnic stereotypes, Merry-go-rounds, Occupations, and Prostitutes
A scene outside the Ram Inn (with a ram above the sign "Dealer in foreigh wintes"), part of whose front forms a background. Yokels are crowded in a wagons with banners, fiddlers, and trumpeter, all wearing favors, and accompanied by many pedestrians (...
Interior scene with the two men in disquise, one looking in the mirror; a wallshelf with plates, antlers and escutcheon decorate the walls; a heap of clothes on the floor lower left. Through the open door to the outside can be seen a man drinking fro...
Alternative Title:
Curate and barber disguising themselves to convey Don Quixote home
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 y...
Description:
Title and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Lust, Preaching, Religion, Religious services, and Sleeping
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 y...
Description:
Title and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Lust, Preaching, Religion, Religious services, and Sleeping
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 y...
Description:
Title and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Lust, Preaching, Religion, Religious services, and Sleeping
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 y...
Description:
Title and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Lust, Preaching, Religion, Religious services, and Sleeping
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 y...
Description:
Title and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Lust, Preaching, Religion, Religious services, and Sleeping
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 y...
Description:
Title and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Lust, Preaching, Religion, Religious services, and Sleeping
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 y...
Description:
Title and state from Paulson.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Lust, Preaching, Religion, Religious services, and Sleeping
