Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Hogarth's “The Sleeping Congregation” of 1728, with a preacher resembling Desaguliers

Painting of a preacher in a pulpit, a clerk with clasped hands below, and a sleeping woman in a red dress.

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

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