A missionary society meeting [graphic].

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Title: A missionary society meeting [graphic].
Contributor: McLean, T. publisher.
Published / Created: 1826.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Abstract: The president stands at a table before a group of men and women many with solemn and stern expressions on their faces. On the walls behind them is a large portrait of a man with a large, caricatured face flanked by two paintings; on the left two preachers addresss a group of native people in a tropical setting; on the right a ship in full sail approaches a tropical land
Description: Title from heading above image.
Three lines of text below image: President, "To conclude, we have preach'd the word in all the uninhabitated parts of the earth & have translated it into 500 unknown languages & have not the least doubt but that we shall be enabled to render it equally intelligable in as many more, aided by the liberal subscriptions of this evening. Vide, the news of Sunday, April 24, 1826- Oriental Quarterly Magazine.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xviii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 27 cm, on sheet 22 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1826
Etchings England London 1826
Aquatints England London 1826
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Indigenous peoples
Missions
Preaching
Religious meetings
Subjects: Indigenous peoples
Missions
Preaching
Religious meetings
England > 1826
England > London > 1826

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