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Enthusiasm display'd: or,the Moor Fields congregation,1739,Methodist Minister

Title: Enthusiasm display'd: or, the Moor Fields congregation
Date Created/Published: [England] : Publish'd by C. Corbett according to ye late Actt P, 1739 August 20.
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.
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.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1730-1740.
Engravings--1730-1740.
Bookmark /2006680550/
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