Scene of constables disrupting the work of those selling goods on Sunday. Includes man in stocks below sign: For vending Goods on the Lord's Day. Includes a smoking and drinking woman who has in her basket: Wesley's Hymns. A preacher standing on a tub and preaching is in the background. The name, John Ketch, appears among others on a sign on the wall of a nearby house
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Portrait of Methodist, based on Hogarth print published in 1763., Text following title: quote from Matthew, Chap xii, ver. 5, 7., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788. and Ketch, Jack, -1686.
The thin, half-dressed man is scolded by his fat wife who has caught him in the garret bedroom with their young female servant. A bundle of his clothes in her arms, the servant scratches her head at the door. Pasted on the walls and ceilings of the room are several papers inscribed with dictums such as "Thou shalt not commit adultery", "God's warning for sinners", and "Once I lov'd." On the floor a book lies open to pages which read "Servants obey your Masters" and "Sermon to young women by Timy. Button Hole."
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Methodists, Adultery, Attics, Couples, Bedrooms, Servants' quarters, and Women domestics
A Methodist minister standing before a building, possibly meant to represent Whitefield's tabernacle in Tottenham Court Rd., is confronted by two women, an older one who gestures toward the church and a young one, fashionably dressed and pulling him toward the public house on the right. The sign on the latter reads "The old goat new Reviv[ed]" and before it stands a donkey between two bales of hay
Alternative Title:
Divinity in danger
Description:
Title from item. and A reduced and reversed copy of The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak (George 4609) designed by J. Collet.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
