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The Minister preaching to the Seven Devils   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: J Brown
Title
The Minister preaching to the Seven Devils
Description
English: The interior of the City Road chapel: Wesley in the pulpit (right) preaches at Fox who stands (left), a gigantic figure with his arms folded, his mouth wide open as if howling, his eyes staring. From each side of his head project three heads. Beside and below the pulpit Hood kneels, his hands folded, his eyes cast up; on the desk before him is an open book inscribed 'Test Act Repeal'. On a bench beneath Hood sits Pitt as a pew-opener, holding a key (probably the key of the back-stairs, cf. BMSat 6564, &c), and looking up sanctimoniously. Wesley holds an open book inscribed 'Comparison between two Candidates'; he says: "The Wolf and the Lamb are not more opposite - One hath fought the good fight, and dwelleth in the Harbour of Grace, with a good conscience under a Hood - the other hath also conquered, but whom, my Brethren, why, Wives and Maidens - Oh ye Electors, take heed of your Daughters, for he delighteth to revel in the Port of iniquity. &c. &c." On his pulpit is inscribed 'Election Expedient a new thought'. The six heads surrounding that of Fox are (left to right) a lady (probably Mrs. Fawkener) turning towards Townshend, who is next Burke. On the right are Sheridan (?), the Duke of Norfolk, and Hanger. 23 July 1788
Etching with hand-colouring
Depicted people Representation of: John Wesley
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 200 millimetres
Width: 276 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5762
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

One of many satires on the Westminster by-election of 1788, see BMSat 7339, &c.; for Wesley's sermon cf. BMSat 7348. Townshend had been the defendant in a suit of crim. con., see BMSat 7349, &c. The first allusion in the catalogue to the successive motions (1787, 1789, 1790) for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. The point is obscure, as Fox spoke, 28 March 1787, for the motion, Pitt against it, while Hood apparently took no part in the debate. 'Parl. Hist.' xxvi. 780 ff. See BMSat 7628, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5762
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