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Print made by Robert Spence, 1871–1964, British, George Fox in the Garden of Dr. Craddock at Coventry, between 1890 and 1911
- Title:
George Fox in the Garden of Dr. Craddock at Coventry
- Part Of:
- Date:
- between 1890 and 1911
- Medium:
- Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 9/16 x 9 7/16 inches (29.4 x 23.9 cm), Plate: 6 15/16 x 4 15/16 inches (17.6 x 12.6 cm), Image: 6 1/16 x 4 7/8 inches (15.4 x 12.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Letetered in black ink, lower center: "Then I heard of one called Doctor Cradock; and I went to him, and I asked him the Ground of | Temptations and Dispair; and how Troubles came to be wrought in Man? Now as we were | were walking together in his Garden, the Ally being narrow, I chanced, in turning, to | set my Foot on the side of a Bed; at which the Man was in such a Rage as if his House had | been on Fire. And thus all our Discourse was lost, and I went away in Sorrow, | worse than I was when I came."; lower right: "George Fox his Journal, Coventry, 1644"
Signed in graphite, lower right: "Robert Spence"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of the Artist
- Accession Number:
- B2009.26.4
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- coats | flowers (plants) | garden | hats | historical subject | house | illustration | men | physician | Religious Society of Friends | sadness | staff | wall
- Associated Places:
- Coventry | Coventry | England | Europe | United Kingdom
- Associated People:
- Fox, George (1624–1691), a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:61998
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