A parson guilty of long tedious sermons has fallen asleep as a veteran relates at length the tactics used at the battle of Dettingen: both ignore a woman who brings them a dish of cooked chicken. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.

  • Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
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Feb. 11 1784
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33167i
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A parson guilty of long tedious sermons has fallen asleep as a veteran relates at length the tactics used at the battle of Dettingen: both ignore a woman who brings them a dish of cooked chicken. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The veteran has a wooden leg. He points up to a portrait of a corpulent general, possibly the Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765) in later life. On the back wall is a plan of the battle of Dettingen, in the War of Austrian Succession

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London (Strand) : W. Humphrey, Feb. 11 1784.

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1 print : etching ; sheet 15 x 16.8 cm

Lettering

Long sermons and long sieges are apt to lull the senses.

References note

Joseph Grego, Rowlandson the caricaturist, London:: Chatto and Windus, 1880, vol 2, p. 389

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Wellcome Collection 33167i

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