George Fox in the Garden of Dr. Craddock at Coventry
Date:
between 1890 and 1911
Materials & Techniques:
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)
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"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania