The Sleepy Congregation, William Hogarth, between 1790 and 1800
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. C. 1790s
hand-coloured mezzotint. Date: between 1790 and 1800. Dimensions: Height: 348 mm; Width: 252 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. The Sleepy Congregation (BM 1935,0522.1.20 1)