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Summary

Description

The Sleeping Congregation—Hogarth. A nineteenth-century magazine reproduction after Hogarth: a preacher in the pulpit and a largely sleeping congregation, with church windows, heraldic decoration, books, an hourglass and a watch. All figures, windows, decoration, pulpit, objects, hatching and caption match the scrapbook. The journal caption explicitly credits Hogarth. This is the1875 magazine reproduction, not an original eighteenth-century impression; its reproduction engraver is not securely identified here.

From Caricature in the Hogarthian Period, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. LI (51), no. CCCI (301), June1875, printed p.43. The actual issue opening explicitly prints June1875 and no.301; the volume title prints LI. The repository headline Volume29 is inconsistent with the printed volume and is not used here.

Compared directly with H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume3, page210, item2. This witness does not establish the first-ever appearance or identify the physical copy used for the scrapbook.

Source

Colour scan provided by Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, through Internet Archive, identifier harpersnew51various, ARK ark:/13960/t4dn67r1p.

• Digitized volume and catalogue record.
• Complete colour page, printed p.43.
• Actual June1875 issue opening, no.301.

Thank you to Brigham Young University–Idaho, David O. McKay Library, and Internet Archive for preserving this volume and making its colour scan freely available.

File and processing

PNG, 1986 × 2656 pixels, RGB. Retained complete source JPEG: 2960 × 4866 pixels, 1930157 bytes, SHA-256 ea9caa0d9eb12b9b75b4a0ee561ac89c4f57da470807f7edc48246787bceb0ab.

Crop from(490, 390)–(2500, 3070), then trim to(12, 12)–(1998, 2668); right and bottom bounds are exclusive. Alignment corrected by0.092232 degrees clockwise with one bicubic resampling. The engraving and original caption are retained. No added canvas is included. Natural paper colour, marks and show-through are preserved. No enlargement, colour or tonal correction, sharpening, retouching or reconstruction was applied. PNG compression is lossless; the source itself is JPEG. The complete page with all original text remains linked above.

Rights

Public-domain historical engraving published in the United States in1875, reproduced by a faithful library scan. The issue opening carries the original copyright notice. No Creative Commons licence or Public Domain Mark is attributed to this repository object.