Vicar and Moses The inspiration for this figure group was a Hogarth's engraving of "The Sleeping Congregation", published first in 1736 In an era when the clergy was notoriously lazy, the figure group appealed because it shows the vicar sleeping soundly in his pulpit, while the clerk, Moses, delivers the sermon
The Fitzwilliam Museum - The Vicar and Moses: C. 21-1929 A satirical ballad, ‘The Vicar and Moses’, by George Alexander Stevens, published c 1772, which tells of a drunken vicar assisted in his duties by his clerk, Moses, almost certainly influenced the production of both these groups
The Vicar and Moses - Staffordshire Figure Association There are in fact two pieces that are commonly referred to as The Vicar and Moses, but these pictures are of the piece which was modelled on William Hogarth’s illustration entitled the Sleeping Congregation, first published in 1736 It is also known as The Parson and Clerk
The Tale of a Nightmare Boss - Victoria Gallery Museum . . . This morality tale in miniature measures just under 25cm high The Vicar and Moses was made around 1790 during what is considered the ‘golden age’ of satire in Georgian Britain, expressed through visual means but also in literature, plays and song
Vicar Moses - The Metropolitan Museum of Art A stout vicar holds a pipe in one hand and the arm of a thin companion wearing clerical bands with the other The thin man carries a lantern They walk through the grounds of a church, seen behind, with three women in mourning clothes seen in the distance, standing near the church tower
Vicar and Moses | work by Wood | Britannica The “Vicar and Moses,” afterward repeated by his son and many other potters, appeared at this time and enjoyed great popularity Of the animals, the stags are particularly well-known
The vicar and Moses. [graphic] (Plate II) - Yale University Thirty-two lines of verse (second half of the song) printed in two columns below title: Then Moses went on, Sir; the clock has struck one, Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum
The Vicar and Moses | V A Explore The Collections Figure group 'The Vicar and Moses', lead-glazed earthenware Explore the Collections contains over a million catalogue records, and over half a million images It is a working database that includes information compiled over the life of the museum
print; satirical print - British Museum In this broadside, a corpulent vicar and his parish clerk, Moses, stagger from a public house to perform a funeral service for an infant from his parish The church and the parishioners are depicted waiting for them in the upper left-hand side