Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Print made by Robert Spence, 1871–1964, British
Title:: George Fox at Launceston Gaol
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)
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."
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:: correctional institution | coats | hats | staffs | balls | historical subject | illustration | lawn bowls | game | men | Religious Society of Friends | prison | castle | arch | Puritans | playing | religious and mythological subject
Associated Places:: Launceston Castle | England | Launceston | Cornwall | United Kingdom
Currently On View:: Not on view
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:61999