Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Print made by Robert Spence, 1871–1964, British
Title:
George Fox and the Dead Cromwell
Date:
between 1897 and 1898
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, greened white laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 inches (24.2 x 30.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, lower center: "And though O: C: at Dunbar sight had promised to ye Lord yt if hee gave him ye Victory hee would take away Tyths or let him be rowled into his | Grave with Infamy, Butt when hee came to be Cheife hee confirmed ye former Laws, But when ye king came in they tooke him uppe and hanged him, and | buryed him under Tyburn. And when I saw him hanging there I saw his word justly come upon him."; lower right: "George Fox his Journal. 1660."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania
Copyright Status:
© Estate of the Artist
Accession Number:
B2009.26.16
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
historical subject | genre subject | wagons | carts | ladder | shovel | hats | coats | grave | Religious Society of Friends | night | sadness | men | illustration | digging | women | houses | village | town | hangings (executions) | gaze | crowd | gallows | evening | bodies | execution (event) | death
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Tyburn | Greater London | London | Middlesex
Currently On View:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:62010