Satire on unsophisticated singers. Eight male singers, heavily caricatured, in a box pew inside a gothic church are singing from a book; one man on the right plays a recorder. Behind, on the left, the bust of a man is attached to the wall; on the right is a hatchment with a verse below reading, 'stephen and time / are now both even / stephen beat time / now time beat stephen'; after date erased. Hand-coloured mezzotint. Date: 1773. Dimensions: Height: 341 mm; Width: 246 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. The Church Choristers (BM 1935,0522.1.46)
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