The Sleeping Congregation
Primary
William Hogarth
(London, England, 1697–1764)
NationalityEnglish, Europe
Date1736
MediumEtching and engraving
Catalogue raisonnéPaulson 140
DimensionsSheet: 10 7/16 × 8 1/8 in. (26.5 × 20.6 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Charles and Dorothy Clark, 1982.214
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1982.214
On View
Not on viewInside a church a clergyman reads the Gospel while his congregation sleeps and a clerk eyes a young woman. Hogarth’s keen observation of human behavior and unsparing critique of social convention inspired all later British satirists.
Exhibitions
William Hogarth
1751
Object number: 1991.157
William Hogarth
1751
Object number: 1991.156
