TITLE: Enthusiasm display'd: or, the Moor Fields congregation CALL NUMBER: PC 1 - 2432 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-137507 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: The print shows evangelical Methodist minister Geroge Whitefield preaching at Moorsfield, London.. He is supported by two females, one holding a mask and labeled "Hypocrisy", the other a Janus-faced "Deceit". On the left are three woodcocks, one with a worm and one dead(?) which are labeled "Trapped" and on the right, a woman, labeled "Folly," reclines on the ground holding a jester's staff. Next to her is a monkey. The text, a poem critical of Dr. Whitefield, mentions "thirty-nine approaches forty-one" possibly referring to 1739 when Whitefield was preaching in America and 1841 his expected return to England. MEDIUM: 1 print : engraving. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [England] : Publish'd by C. Corbett according to ye late Actt P, 1739 August 20. NOTES: (No. 1) Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / prepared by Frederic George Stephens, v. 3, no. 2432 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). SUBJECTS: Whitefield, George,--1714-1770. Evangelists--1730-1740. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1730-1740.Engravings 1730-1740. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c37507 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c37507 CONTROL #: 2006680550
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