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The Sleeping Congregation

The Sleeping Congregation

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William Hogarth

In an unusually simple print, Hogarth satirizes the tedious pastor who has managed to put the entire congregation to sleep, aside from the clerk who leers at a young parishioner. Before nodding off, her reading has been the section of the prayerbook entitled “On Matrimony.”
Artist
William Hogarth
(English, 1697 - 1764)
Title
The Sleeping Congregation
Date
October 1736
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
10 1/2 x 8 3/16 in. Image
Credit
University Fund purchase
Accession No.
66.8.68
Classification
Prints
Geography
England

Related

  • British Satire from Hogarth to Cruikshank: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/15/2001–11/4/2001

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