File:Toothless, he draws the teeth of all his flocks (BM 1868,0808.4583).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file (1,438 × 1,600 pixels, file size: 889 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Toothless, he draws the teeth of all his flocks   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Toothless, he draws the teeth of all his flocks
Description
English: Wesley (l.) as 'Reynard' with a fox's head, wearing an M.A. gown with clerical bands, bends forward to extract the teeth of a working man (r.) with an ass's head, who kneels before him. Wesley rests a cloven hoof on a pile of four books; inscribed "Locke", "Sidney", "Magna Charta", and "Ackerly's Constituts"; he wears a collar inscribed "North". Acherley's constitutional treatises ('The Britannic Constitution', 1727, &c.) expressed an extreme form of the social contract theory of Locke and others. Beside him is a table (l.) on which are two open books transfixed by a dagger, across which is a scroll inscribed "Dispatch for America"; one book is "Impostor detected by R. Hill", the other "Political Sophistry detected by Evans". For these pamphlets see BMSat 5493.


The working man, dressed like a blacksmith, opens his ass's jaws for Wesley's ministrations; in one hand is a bottle inscribed "Prim. Phys.", in the other a pamphlet, "A Calm Address" (see BMSat 5493); from his pocket protrudes a volume of "Hymns".
Behind Wesley (l.) is a book-case, its pediment ornamented by a mitre, in allusion to Wesley's alleged desire for consecration, see BMSat 5493. Its three shelves of books are inscribed "Primitive Physick"; "Political Pamphlets"; and "Prayers", "Sermons", "Hymns". Wesley's 'Primitive Physick, or an easy and natural Method of curing most Diseases' went through many editions from 1747; it was first noticed and attacked by the medical profession in 1776 in a pamphlet by Dr. W. Hawes, an eminent physician, as "calculated to do essential injury to the health of those persons who may place confidence in it". On the back wall are two framed half length portraits: 'Jacobus II' and 'Lucy Cooper', the latter inscribed "Converted June 24 at 1 O'Clock in the Morning". According to the Explanation which has been cut off the impression, the pictures show him to be a Jacobite and "an old letcher". Lucy was "a Lady still remembered in Covent Garden", 'Perfection', p. 14 n. 1778


Etching
Depicted people Representation of: Lucy Cooper
Date 1778
date QS:P571,+1778-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 200 millimetres
Width: 183 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4583
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) Frontispiece from 'Sketches for Tabernacle-Frames', another scurrilous attack on Wesley by the author of 'Perfection ...', see BMSat 5493, 5495, 5496, 5576.

The allusions in this satire largely repeat those of BMSat 5496, though their political animus is more pronounced. Wesley is depicted as "a physical, a political and a Religious Quack", 'The Love Feast', p. 13 n. See BMSat 5496. His influence with the common people is alleged to have softened their animosity to the Government, an anticipation, though with a more limited application, of the conclusions of Lecky and Halévy.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4583
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Licensing

[edit]
This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
 Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Honduras has a general copyright term of 75 years, but it does implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II (more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions (more information).
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

This tag is designed for use where there may be a need to assert that any enhancements (eg brightness, contrast, colour-matching, sharpening) are in themselves insufficiently creative to generate a new copyright. It can be used where it is unknown whether any enhancements have been made, as well as when the enhancements are clear but insufficient. For known raw unenhanced scans you can use an appropriate {{PD-old}} tag instead. For usage, see Commons:When to use the PD-scan tag.

Note: This tag applies to scans and photocopies only. For photographs of public domain originals taken from afar, {{PD-Art}} may be applicable. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current16:08, 9 May 2020Thumbnail for version as of 16:08, 9 May 20201,438 × 1,600 (889 KB)Copyfraud (talk | contribs)British Museum public domain uploads (Copyfraud/BM) Satirical prints in the British Museum 1778 #2,993/12,043

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Toothless,_he_draws_the_teeth_of_all_his_flocks_(BM_1868,0808.4583).jpg&oldid=420674512"