File:Apocrypha combatants, (BM 1868,0808.8736).jpg
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[edit]Apocrypha combatants,
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Apocrypha combatants, |
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| Description |
English: The title continues: 'Being a Series of Twelve Caricatures, Illustrative of that Controversy. First Series'. Title or frontispiece to Nos. 15574-85, a set of chalk lithographs (coloured, all with the same imprint and price as No. 15574). An emblematic border in pen-lithography surrounds a 'Preface' engraved on the face of a rock, and dated 'Edinburgh 17th March 1827' [i.e. 1828], with the note, 'N.B. N° 1 of the Second series [see No. 15586] will appear in a few days'. In this the author states that at first 'he was impressed with an idea, that the principal pamphleteers [Thomson and Grey], in this disgraceful Controversy, were alike reprehensible ; but a more attentive perusal of the various writings, produced in his mind that bias, which will be observable.. . . It will also be noticed, that the Author is Anti-Apocryphal in his sentiments while he disclaims the slightest acquaintance with any of the Dramatis Persona of the Controversy. . .' .
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Reverend Andrew Brandram | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1828 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
1868,0808.8736 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954) The once-famous controversy (1824-36) was mainly originated, and conducted with prolixity and violence, by Andrew Thomson (1779-1831), minister of St. George's, Edinburgh. Under his leadership the Edinburgh Bible Society severed its association with the British and Foreign Bible Society (managed by a committee at Earl Street, London, the old 'Bible House', the Secretary being Brandram, an Anglican parson attacked by Thomson). Thomson assailed the parent Society, and those who differed from him, in his monthly periodical, The Edinburgh Christian Instructor, for having bound the Apocrypha with the Bible for distribution in continental countries where the Apocrypha was canonical (and without which the Bible would not have been accepted). His chief opponent (and former friend) was Henry Grey (1778-1859), minister of St. Mary's, Edinburgh, whom he accused of being the chief author of Letters ... by Anglicanus, 1827. Grey and John Campbell Carbrook (the Chairman) were among the five members of the Committee of the Edinburgh Society who dissented from the separation, and in 1826 published their reasons for doing so (British Library T. 1196/1). Thomson published John Campbell of Carbrook Esq called to account . . ., 1827, see Nos. 15581, 15585. The controversy evoked an inquiry into verbal inspiration and the status of the Hebrew canon. Here, the issues are mainly personal, but involve the questions of Scot v. Saxon, and Presbyterian v. Anglican, while the 'Apocryphals' were accused of countenancing 'Popery'. See W. Canton, Hist, of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1904, i. 333 ff.; W. L. Mathieson, Church and Reform in Scotland 1797-1843, 1916, pp. 273-6. 'My Conscience', Brownie's ejaculation, is a Scots phrase given popularity by Bailie Nicol Jarvie in Scott's Rob Roy (1818). The series, this plate excepted, is depicted in No. 15586. All the plates of both series and No. 15592 are by the same artist and are crude and amateurish. All are on paper of uniform size, IO 3/8 x 16 1/2 in.; all but No. 15574 are horizontal in shape; all have wide and indeterminate margins. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-8736 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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