[The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak] [graphic].
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16192320
Description
- Title
- [The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak] [graphic].
- Creator
- Goldar, John, 1729-1795, printmaker
- Contributor
-
Collet, John, 1725?-1780, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Smith, J. active approximately 1750-1792, publisher. - Published / Created
- [approximately 1773]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Robt. Sayer & Jno. Smith
- Abstract
-
On a street in front of a church (right), possibly referencing the one built by George Whitfield in Tottenham Court Road and a tavern (left)with a sign identifying it as "The Old Goat New Revived", a make follower of Whitefield dressed in a quasi-Puritan dress, is assailed by two women. On the right an old woman touches his arm and points to the church with a volume, unlabeled in this working proof but later lettering "Whitefield's Hymns". On the left, a pretty, young woman lures him toward the public house. He eyes the young woman as he holds up his one hand deprecatingly toward the older woman
- Description
-
Title and date from British Museum catalogue.
Finished print lettered with title and inscriptions: "J. Collet pinxt. / J. Goldar sculpt. / London, Printed for Robt. Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street & Jno. Smith No. 35, Cheapside, as the Act directs Jan. 1. 1773."
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
No. 52 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries.
Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering. - Provenance
- From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 32.2 x 24 cm
- Edition
- [Working proof].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 C697 770
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Churches
Temptation
Signs (Notices)
Taverns (Inns) - Subjects
-
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770
Churches
Temptation
Signs (Notices)
Taverns (Inns)
England > 1773
England > London > 1773
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11665234
- Object ID (OID)
- 16192320