File:(A sleepy congregation) (BM 1937,1108.39).jpg
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[edit][A sleepy congregation]
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[A sleepy congregation] |
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English: The interior of a crowded church. The preacher stands in a high pulpit (left) facing his congregation with a stern expression. Beneath him is the precentor, John Campbell (see BMSat 5894). The congregation sits in a gallery, under the gallery, and in the body of the church round the pulpit. Men predominate. Most of the congregation are asleep, some turn their backs on the preacher. Republished state, with date added. 1785, this state c. 1838
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| Depicted people | Representation of: Alexander Webster | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1785 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1937,1108.39 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Dr. Alexander Webster (1707-84) preaching in the Tolbooth church (the SW. portion of St. Giles's). The congregation represents persons notoriously little addicted to church-going: Webster's actual congregation consisted of the strictest Presbyterians known as 'Tolbooth Whigs' from their resemblance to the covenanting Whigs of the seventeenth century. Collection, No. 8. Kay, No. X. [Supplementary information] This and other plates by Kay were republished as 'A Series of original portraits and caricature etchings', edited by Hugh Paton, Edinburgh 1838. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1937-1108-39 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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