A sleepy congregation

Title:: A sleepy congregation
Description:: The interior of a parish church. Of the occupants of a family pew in the foreground the elders are sleeping, while a fair young worshipper's thoughts are evidently wandering ; the attentions of one or two buckish youths, seated in the vicinity, seem to be centred on the lady ; the clerk is snoring at his desk, regardless of the podgy and somewhat excited preacher over his head, who is quite absorbed in his sermon, which does not seem to interest anyone but the deliverer.
Artist:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Name on Item:: Rowlandson scul
Date:: February 1811
Format:: Prints
Genre:: Etchings
Caricatures
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Prints and Drawings
Series:: The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 5
Subjects:: Churches
Pews
Sleeping
Clergy
Extent:: 1 print : hand-colored etching ; sheet 39 x 26 cm
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Publisher:: No. 111 Cheapside : Tho's Tegg
Language:: English
Notes:: Title from item.
Grego, II, p. 115, 199
On item: Tegg's Caricatures. No. 54
Notes (acquisition):: The Albert H. Wiggin Collection, 1941
Notes (date):: Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):: Grego, Joseph. "Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures, in two volumes." London: Chatto and Windus, 1880
Notes (object):: Bound in "The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror Vol. 5," the fifth volume in a set of five published under this title by Thomas Tegg. The five volumes contained 251 prints in all.
Identifier:: 18_03_000547
Barcode:: 36666003263197