Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A sleepy congregation.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 17/Normal/Prints/Titles Sc-So GA 2014.00489
Identifier
ark:/88435/f7623m70v
Publisher
[London] : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1827
Extent
1 item ; sheet 40.7 x 25.8 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 199
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Parish church with 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 centered 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.
Inscribed in plate, upper center: "Tegg's Caricatures No. 54".
Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson scul.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Church of England—Caricatures and cartoons
Sleep—Caricatures and cartoons
Clergy—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Religious gatherings—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Church services—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Boredom—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/16bbc4df-fdbc-4539-8f8f-ac8d91ad59b0/manifest