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The Sleepy Congregation   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Published by: Carington Bowles

After: William Hogarth
Title
The Sleepy Congregation
Description
English: Copy of interior of a church where the congregation sleeps as the clergyman reads from the gospel and the clerk eyes the exposed bosom of a young woman asleep on the right; after Hogarth.
Mezzotint with etching
Date 1766-1784 (circa)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 354 millimetres
Width: 252 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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2010,7081.3242
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For an impression of the original, in the same direction, see 1868,0822.1540 (BM Sat. 2285). There is another anonymous droll in the same direction published by Bowles & Carver, but not the same plate (BM Satires 2286; 1935,0522.1.20) See also the plates by Purcell of this, in the same direction (BM Sat 2294; 2010,7081.3140, and 2010,7081.3241). There are also two small drolls in the same direction, one by Spooner with French and English title, the other anonymous, and a third in reverse (2010,7081.1486, 2092, 2093)

States [recorded in the Lennox-Boyd database] (i) lettered with the title, and "Invented by W. Hogarth. // Printed for Carington Bowles, next the Chapter House in St. Pauls Church Yard, London.'; lettered on the pulpit within the image 'I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. Galat. 4. viii.', and on the text from which the minister preaches 'Come unto me all ye that labour and are Heavy laden and I will give you rest. Mat. II. 28'. [impression with CLB] (ii) verses added below the image: 'When Dulness mounts the Sacred Rostrum, And deals about his Sleepy Mostrum; Is there an Eye awake can keep? No. - All submissive nod to Sleep'

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Carington Bowles, 1784, p. 112 no. 296, 1s. plain 2s. coloured; 1790, p. 102 no. 311, same price
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2010-7081-3242
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