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A clergyman reads the sermon with the aid of a magnifying glass to a sleeping congregation while another clergyman ogles a sleeping woman; satire on tedious sermons and the replacement of spirituality by sleep Wall Art
ART BY: William Hogarth
A clergyman reads the sermon with the aid of a magnifying glass to a sleeping congregation while another clergyman ogles a sleeping woman; satire on tedious sermons and the replacement of spirituality by sleep Wall Art
ART BY: William Hogarth
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A clergyman reads the sermon with the aid of a magnifying glass to a sleeping congregation while another clergyman ogles a sleeping woman; satire on tedious sermons and the replacement of spirituality by sleep is a mezzotints by William Hogarth (1697–1764). The artist is catalogued as English. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Wellcome Collection, and the file offered here measures 4525 × 6000 px (6.0 MB). Catalogued under Prints and Rococo, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 742 works by William Hogarth, a British artist.
William Hogarth was an English painter, engraver, cartoonist, and satirist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by William Hogarth →
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A clergyman reads the sermon with the aid of a magnifying glass to a sleeping congregation while another clergyman ogles a sleeping woman; satire on tedious sermons and the replacement of spirituality by sleep is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
