"The meeting taking place in a hall, with gallery."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 64., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 236.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st April 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England., England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Quakers, Interiors, Religious services, and Meetings
"A plainly dressed man with lank hair falling on his shoulders, bends over a dog, placing his left hand on the head of the trustful animal. With a large brush he applies a smoking liquid to its side saying, "Come here poor Dog! Thee shalt not say I called thee names, or beat thee, for that would be cruel!! but I will anoint thee with Oil, and moisten thy sides with my pure Linnement." The scene is in a yard with a high paling, outside an open door leading to the dispensing-room of the Quaker, evidently an apothecary. Just within the room is a large smoking jar of 'Oil of Vitriol'; on the door-step is a dish of smoking vitriol. Above are the neatly ranged jars, bottles, and drawers of an apothecary, with a pestle and mortar. A woman in an upper window of an adjacent house looks down into the yard; she shouts: "Ah Obadiah, that decietfull whining Cant, to allure the poor Animal, in order to inflict the most Diabolical unheard of Cruelty on him, shall not go unpunished"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Mercifull example of Quaerism at Brighton and Merciful example of Quakerism at Brighton
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text below title: NB. the side of the poor animal was entirely burned through the next day and his bowels actuall [sic] fell out on the ground., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Ms. note in pencil below plate line.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 1806 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Quakers, Dogs, Drugstores, Ethnic stereotypes, and Punishment & torture
