File:A coat of arms for John Wesley (BM 1868,0808.4580).jpg
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A coat of arms for John Wesley |
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Description |
English: Frontispiece from 'Perfection; a poetical Epistle, calmly addressed to the greatest Hypocrite in England', an attack on Wesley for his 'Calm Address to our American Colonies', 1775.
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Depicted people | Associated with: Caleb Evans | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1778 date QS:P571,+1778-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.4580 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) Since Wesley's 'Calm Address to our American Colonies', an unacknowledged abridgement of Johnson's 'Taxation No Tyranny' sold at a penny and achieving a great circulation, Wesley had been the target of virulent abuse which reached a climax of scurrility in 1778. See Tyerman, 'Life and Times of Wesley', iii. 261 ff. It was followed by 'A Calm Address to the Inhabitants of England', 1778. 'A wolf in Sheep's clothing or an old Jesuit unmasked . . .' was published in 1775. The mitre is an allusion to the allegations of Toplady and Rowland Hill, that Wesley had asked Erasmus, bishop of Arcadia in Crete, to consecrate him bishop and had been refused. The dagger is supposed to indicate the effect of the Calm Address: "And massacre Mankind with calm address." The slabs supporting the wolf and fox are inscribed with the names of attacks on Wesley: the chief attack on the 'Calm Address' had been by Caleb Evans, a Baptist minister and a 'patriot' in 'A Letter to the Rev. Mr John Wesley occasioned by his "Calm Address"'. Rowland Hill's pamphlet of abuse was 'Imposture detected . . .' 1777. The weathercock pointing to the north indicates that Wesley has sold himself to the Ministry. Wesley's New Chapel in the City Road, opened in 1778, was built by subscriptions. The key on the escutcheon represents "the Keys of Hell", because of Wesley's alleged fulminations against non-Methodists. The mouse-trap is "Priestcraft's Trap". This print and BMSat 5494-6, 5576, are all frontispieces to scurrilous pamphlets in verse by the same writer, all published by J. Bew, Paternoster Row. 'Perfection' is attributed to W. Combe by J. C. Hotten in his introduction to 'Dr Syntax' [1868], p. xli. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4580 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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