Accession number
PML 146853.13a
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published
[London] : Invented Engraved & Published ... by Wm. Hogarth Pursuant to an Act of Parliament, October 26, 1736 [reissued April 21, 1762].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Paulson.
Retouched and reissued 4th state as described by Paulson, with added engraved inscription extending up the right margin: Retouched & Improved April 21st 1762 by the Author.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and mounted with another print by Hogarth on bound album leaf, 455 x 625 mm.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Retouched and reissued 4th state as described by Paulson, with added engraved inscription extending up the right margin: Retouched & Improved April 21st 1762 by the Author.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark and mounted with another print by Hogarth on bound album leaf, 455 x 625 mm.
Print forms part of an album (PML 146853) that is one of three containing the collected works of William Hogarth; evidently comprised of prints reissued by the artist's widow and compiled no earlier than 1781 (see PML 146851-53).
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 254 x 195 mm; sheet: 268 x 208 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
The scene is the interior of a perpendicular Gothic church. The sand in the hourglass has run out, but the preacher continues to lecture, oblivious to the fact that his congregation has fallen asleep.
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