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# Hogarth's “The Sleeping Congregation” of 1728, with a preacher resembling Desaguliers
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/spiashchie-prikhozhane-1728/
- Published: 2018-06-19T08:02:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:58:28.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Faith, Art, Observations, Humour

The Sleeping Congregation, 1728\. Hogarth. It is very Hogarthian that the man in the pulpit looks like the celebrated natural philosopher, propagandist of Newtonian theories and freemason John Theophilus Desaguliers. And the flock is asleep