The Sleeping Congregation
1728 William Hogarth painting (print 1736) satirizing a dozing church congregation
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The Sleeping Congregation is a work by William Hogarth, painted around 1728 and issued as an engraving in 1736, depicting a church congregation asleep or inattentive during a tedious sermon, while the clergyman drones on and a clerk eyes a sleeping young woman.[1] The print satirizes the dull, uninspired preaching Hogarth associated with the established church of his day.
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- ↑ "William Hogarth."CartoonWiki.Retrieved 2026-10-02.