George Fox Is Stoned by the Crowd at Walney Island
Date:
between 1890 and 1911
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/16 x 9 1/8 inches (28.1 x 23.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, lower center: "Having got knowledge of my coming many of the Town rushed out with Clubs and Stones | and Fishing Poles, crying, Kill him; knock him on the Head, but the Lords Power preserved me, and at | length I got up upon my feet; but they beat me down again into the Boat: which James Lancaster | observing, he presetly came into the Boat, and set me over the Water from them; but while | we were on the Water within their Reach, they struck at us with long Poles, and stoned us."; lower right: "George Fox his Journal. Walney Island. 1652."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania