George Fox Is Challenged to Fight at Scarborough Castle
Date:
between 1890 and 1911
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/8 x 12 11/16 inches (24.5 x 32.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, lower center: "One Wilkinson, a Presbyterian, once a Captain, being drunk challenged me to fight him. I told him How unmanly a thing it was in him to challenge | a Man ot fight, a whole Principle, he knew, it was not to Strike; but if he was Striken on one Ear, to turn again, the other. However, | I told him I would now answer him with my Hands in my Pockets: and (reaching my Head towards him) 'Here said I, here is my Hair, here are | my Cheeks, here is my Back': with that he Skipt away from me, and went into anothe Room: at which the Soldiers fell a laughing; and one of the Officers | said, 'You are a brave Man that can bear such things.'"; lower right: "G Fox his Journal. Scarborough Castle, 1666."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania