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[A sleepy congregation]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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[A sleepy congregation]
Description
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. 1785
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Depicted people Representation of: Alexander Webster
Date 1785
date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 144 millimetres
Width: 132 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
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1935,0522.13.8
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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.

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>From an album of Kay's work in BM P&D, apparently assembled by himself, with manuscript notes: see 1935,0522.13.1
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-13-8
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