- Title:
- George Fox and Captain Keat
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Etching and drypoint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 3/16 inches (30.2 x 23.4 cm), Plate: 7 7/8 x 6 15/16 inches (20 x 17.6 cm), and Image: 7 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches (18.1 x 17.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, lower center: "Next Morning Capt. Keat brings a Kinsman of his into the Room; This evil-minded Man walking huffing up and down the Room | I bade him fear the Lord. Wherupon he ran upon me, and Struck me with both his Hands; and clapping his Leg be- | hind me, would fain have thrown me down if he could; but he could not: for I stood stiff and still, and let him Strike. | And as I looked towards the Door, I saw Capt. Keat look on, where upon I said to him 'Keat, Dost thou allow this? | and he said, He did. 'Is this Manly or Civil, said I. to have us under a Guard, and put a Man to abuse and beat us?"; lower right: "Gerg Fox his Journal. 1655."
signed in graphite, lower right: "Robert Spence"; not dated
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania
- Copyright Status:
- © Estate of the Artist
- Accession Number:
- B2009.26.12
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- beating | bench | captain | casement windows | coats | correctional institution | doorway | fighting | gesture | historical subject | illustration | interior | laughing | men | pipe (smoking equipment) | prison | prisoner | punishment | smoking | table | violence
- Associated People:
- Fox, George (1624–1691), a founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: As a COVID-19 precaution, the Study Room is closed until further notice. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:62006
- Export:
- XML | RDF
YCBA Collections Search
Print made by Robert Spence, 1871–1964, British, George Fox and Captain Keat, undated
If you have information about this object that may be of assistance please contact us.