File:Dr. Squintum's exaltation or the reformation. (BM 1868,0808.4312 1).jpg
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Dr. Squintum's exaltation or the reformation. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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After: Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale (?)
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Title |
Dr. Squintum's exaltation or the reformation. |
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Description |
English: Satire on Methodism, especially on George Whitefield, showing him preaching in the open air outside a town. He is shown with large ears, his arms outstretched, standing on a three-legged stool; a female devil on his left blows a trumpet, a male devil on his right syringes his ear with a clyster, and beneath the stool another devil reaches out to grasp coins lying on the ground. Nearerst to the preacher are a man with a disproportionately large head and another with the head of a wolf who hold prayer books; an old woman looks towards man with the head of a dog who clasps his hands and looks up admiringly at Whitefield; a butcher holding marrow bone and cleaver stands behind. The remainder of the crowd consists of followers of Whitefield who, hypocritically, prevent people from going about their business on Sunday: two men, one a barber carrying a large pole, remonstrate with an elaborately dressed young prostitute who lets coins fall from her hand; the scene is watched by a young carpenter into whose ear an old woman is muttering; behind this group a middle-aged woman accosts a distracted artist holding a porte-crayon; a bewigged old man holds a boy under the chin turning his head towards the preacher. On the right, a constable and two other man interfere with a family of fruitsellers: a young girl on her knees pleads with them as they fill a sack with fruit from her basket; the constable pushes the woman's shoulder so that she lets drop her baby and her table of fruit collapses; her husband remonstrates in vain. Further off, to right, two men quarrel violently, one brandishing a large joint of meat, while another shrinks away, and to left, a devil sits on a clifftop blowing a fire with bellows. 2 May 1763
Etching with engraved lettering |
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Depicted people | Representation of: George Whitefield | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1763 date QS:P571,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.4312 |
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Notes |
The title of the print refers to Samuel Foote's enormously popular play "The Minor" (1760) in which Whitefield appears in the guise of "Squintum". The reference in the verses to the Rummer tavern ("The Mistress we'll drag by her hair out of Doors,/For keeping a stew and encouraging Whores") must allude to an attack on the Rummer by members of the Society for the Reformation of Manners which led to the landlady of the tavern bringing a case against those involved (Gentleman's Magazine, February 1763). Hawkins's annotation at the foot of the sheet suggests that the mention in the verses of "Pratt" is a reference to a brothel keeper in Covent Garden Piazza, but it seems more likely to refer to the future Earl Camden, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, who became a popular figure when he freed Wilkes after his arrest for seditious libel in April 1763. Other references to Swift, Clark and Carpenter have not yet been explained. Hawkins also suggested a likelness between the butcher with the marrow bone and cleaver and the well-known cook Le Beck. The design bears distinct similarities to the work of Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale, notably in the flying devils and the animal headed man to the right of the preacher; the central motif of Whitefield and his followers is similar to a detail in BM Satires 4047. The print was advertised by Sumpter on "Jockey Elliot and his Hobby Horse" (BM Satires 4047) with the note "to which is added, a New Song call'd Tristam in Pain, or the Rummer Well Filled" |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4312 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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