Accession number
PML 145850.230
Published
[England : s.n., 1739]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Satire on the preaching of George Whitefield, the evangelical preacher, who addressed a large crowd on Kennington Common on 29 April 1739.
Inserted as item 231 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy closely trimmed to image.
Inserted as item 231 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy closely trimmed to image.
Description
1 print : etching ; 193 x 116 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows Whitefield standing at mid-distance, on top of a hill, appearing as a giant among a sea of heads; carriages at the edge of crowd; in foreground stand two gallows, one empty with two men sitting on top to watch the preacher, from the closest on the right hang three corpses, two small children sit on top; on ground in foreground stand four figures, one drinking gin and singing "bung yr eye bung yr eye"; a few other figures surrounding.
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