Print made by Robert Spence, 1871–1964, British, George Fox at Launceston Gaol, between 1890 and 1911
- Title:
- George Fox at Launceston Gaol
- Part Of:
- Date:
- between 1890 and 1911
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 3/16 x 11 5/8 inches (23.3 x 29.5 cm), Plate: 5 15/16 x 7 15/16 inches (15.1 x 20.1 cm), Image: 5 7/16 x 7 13/16 inches (13.8 x 19.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, lower center: "After this Mahor Desborow came to the Castle-green, and there plaid Bowles with the Justices and others. And Friends were moved to go | to him and admonish him and them of their Spending their Time so vainly; bidding them Confider, That though they professed themselves to | be Christians, yet they gave themselves up to their Pleasures, and kept the Servants of God meanwhile in Prison."; lower right: "George Fox his Journal. Launceston Gaol. 1656."
Signed in graphite, lower right: "Robert Spence"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of the Artist
- Accession Number:
- B2009.26.5
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- arch | balls | castle | coats | correctional institution | game | hats | historical subject | illustration | lawn bowls | men | playing | prison | Puritans | religious and mythological subject | Religious Society of Friends | staffs
- Associated Places:
- Cornwall | England | Launceston | Launceston Castle | United Kingdom
- Associated People:
- Fox, George (1624–1691), a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:61999
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