Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/16 x 14 1/16 inches (29 x 35.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "G. Fox his Journal. Carlisle. 1653."; lower center: "On the Market-day I went up to the Market-Cross. Now the Magistrates had both threatened and sent their Serjeants. And the Magistrates | Wives had said, That if I came there, they would pluck the Hair from off my Head; Nevertheless I went upon the Cross; and there declared unto them, "That the day | of the Lord was coming upon all their deceitful Ways and Doings'. And after I had declared the Word of Life to the People, the Throng being so great, that | the Serjeants could not g et to me, nor the Magistrates Wives come at me; I passed away quietly."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania