Artist: HOGARTH, Wiliam.Engraved by COOK, T.

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Sleeping Congregation. Masquerades and Operas, Burlington-gate. Columbus Breaking the Egg. Three prints on one plate. Hogarth's treatment of the Sleeping Congregation, the torpor caused by a country parson's sermon, foreshadows Rowlandson's satirical device of bringing together different types of individuals at a ludicrous social occasion. Columbus Breaking the Egg depicts an apocryphal tale concerning Christopher Columbus's response to detractors of his discovery of the New World.

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