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The sleeping congregation
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The sleeping congregation

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 · April 21, 1762

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Interior of a church where the congregation sleeps as the clergyman reads from the gospel and the clerk eyes the exposed bosom of a young woman asleep on the right.

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