print
- Museum number
- 1911,1127.12
- Title
- Object: George Fox refusing the Oath
- Description
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The quaker George Fox standing at the head of a table in Holker Hall, before Middleton and other Justices of the Peace who sits around it with papers laid before him, banging his fist defiantly and refusing to take the oath, with a guard standing in the background to left; engraver's proof.
Etching with mezzotint ground in brown ink
- Production date
- 1897-1905 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 227 millimetres
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Width: 176 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Exhibited in 1905. One of a number of prints illustrating passages from Fox's Journal. Listed in a 1918 sale catalogue of prints by Robert Spence, p. 13, at £2. For information about the catalogue, see 1918,1019.1. See also Frederick Wedmore, 'Spence's etching', The Art Journal, 1910, p.334 ill.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: George Fox's Journal
- Acquisition date
- 1911
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1911,1127.12