Enthusiasm displayed [graphic] / John Griffiths pinxit ; Robt. Pranker sculpt.

Creator:

Pranker, Robert, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[1765]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 42.5 x 53 cm, on sheet 44.5 x 55.3 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/lwlpr37515

Notes:

Title engraved below image.
Probably dates from 1765, the year in which Griffiths exhibited 'Enthusiam Displayed in the character of a Methodist preacher and his congregation in Moorfields' at the Free Society; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,0812.1600.

Abstract:

A Methodist preacher preaching to an open-air congregation with a cloth in one hand, two women preparing to steal a pair of shoes in the midst of the crowd, various people looking on including an apple seller with a cart, a ballad seller with a baby on her back, two Jews, fashionable ladies and gentlemen, a man getting his pocket picked, dogs, and a group of boys with a figure formed of a chimney brush. In the distance, people walk on the field, a figure flying a kite behind, rows of houses in the background; an inn with a sign with a fox to the right and the Palladian facade of St. Luke's Hospital beyond.

Topics:

Audiences.
Carts & wagons
Dogs.
Kites (Toys)
Pickpockets.
Preaching.
Street vendors.
Taverns (Inns)

Topics:

Griffiths, John, artist, publisher,
St. Luke's Hospital (London, England),--depicted.

Coordinates:

a
W0000421
W0000408
N0513043
N0513039

Genre:

Engravings--England--London--1765.
Etchings--England--London--1765.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1765.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

765.00.00.93++

Orbis Record:

14080203

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37515

Citation:

British Museum, Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 3339

OID:

16831363

PID:

digcoll:4787777