Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Print made by Robert Spence, 1871–1964, British
Title:
George Fox and Captain Keat
Date:
between 1890 and 1911
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 3/16 inches (30.2 x 23.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, lower center: "Next Morning Capt. Keat brings a Kinsman of his into the Room; This evil-minded Man walking huffing up and down the Room | I bade him fear the Lord. Wherupon he ran upon me, and Struck me with both his Hands; and clapping his Leg be- | hind me, would fain have thrown me down if he could; but he could not: for I stood stiff and still, and let him Strike. | And as I looked towards the Door, I saw Capt. Keat look on, where upon I said to him 'Keat, Dost thou allow this? | and he said, He did. 'Is this Manly or Civil, said I. to have us under a Guard, and put a Man to abuse and beat us?"; lower right: "Gerg Fox his Journal. 1655."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania
Copyright Status:
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:
B2009.26.12
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
correctional institution | smoking (activity) | fighting | laughing | bench | table | coats | pipe (smoking equipment) | historical subject | doorway | casement windows | prison | interior | gesture | violence | men | captain | prisoner | illustration | beating | punishment
Currently On View:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:62006