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[A dissenting congregation]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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[A dissenting congregation]
Description
English: The interior of a small dilapidated room; a preacher stands in a ramshackle tub declaiming with outstretched arms; he faces a congregation of artisans, &c, who listen with sour and intent expressions. From his pocket protrudes a ballad: 'Black Joke' (cf. BMSat 7673). His tub is inscribed 'Remember The Clergy'; on the ground beside it is a mutilated book of 'Common Prayer'. On the wall is a bill: 'Next Sabeth Day we shall hav a Love Feest it is hopd every Lamb will atend NB a Culleccsion as useal for the Pastor'. In the casement window is a placard (reversed): 'Mangling done here'. In the foreground (right) a small dog befouls a paper inscribed 'Repeal of Corporat[ion] & Test Act'. On the extreme (right) sits a quack doctor; a handbill protruding from his pocket is inscribed 'Doctor Henry a ever failing remedy'; on the ground beside him is a pill-box with scattered pills. From the pocket of a demure-looking woman seated next him issues a bottle, implying that she takes drams. Proof before letter. c. March 1790
Stipple engraving
Depicted people Associated with: Richard Rigby
Date 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 269 millimetres
Width: 216 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1876,1014.53
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

One of many attacks on the dissenters in connexion with the proposal to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts, see BMSat 7628, &c; they are usually represented as seditious, here they are ridiculed as illiterate undesirables.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1876-1014-53
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