A sleepy congregation [graphic] / Rowlandson scul.
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
- Published/Created:
- [London] :
Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside,
[February 1811] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 36 x 25 cm.
- Notes:
- 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."
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW - 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.
- Variant Titles:
- Teggs caricatures ; no. 54
- Topics:
- Churches.
Clergy.
Pews.
Preaching.
Sleeping. - Topics:
- Johnstone, Henry Arthur--Ownership.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Etchings--England--London--1811.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1811.
Watermarks (Paper)--1817.--CtY-LW - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Call Number:
- 811.02.00.01+
Folio 75 W87 807 v.2 - Orbis Record:
- 9165390
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr14552x
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9, no. 11794
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 199 - OID:
- 16192711
- PID:
- digcoll:4046552
