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Fanaticism revived
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English: An imaginary scene during the Gordon riots. On the right a partly-destroyed building is in flames. In the foreground (centre) a man in the gown and bands of a minister, evidently intended for John Wesley, holds out his arms as if preaching. Two men wearing "No Popery" cockades are drinking, apparently from the chalices of a plundered chapel. On the right a working man holds up a large paper inscribed, "June 7 The Protestant Association. The Rt Honble Lord George Gordon Prest in the Cha[ir] Res...". A woman holding a baby sits on the ground. Behind, a man holds a torch to the burning building.


On the left a man kneeling, fires point-blank with a pistol at a dog which has been tied to a post and sits on its hind-legs with a cross in its fore-paws. A large open book, its pages torn, is on the ground. Behind, men are carrying off plunder, one has a dish or tray, another a candle-stick. On the wall behind them is a placard inscribed "Now publishing and to be had at Mr Thomsons a new Pampt entitled England in Blood".
Beneath the design is engraved:

"Religious strife is rais'd to Life,
By canting whining John;
No Popery he loud doth cry,
To the deluded throng." c.June 1780


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Depicted people Associated with: Lord George Gordon
Date 1780
date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 203 millimetres
Width: 321 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.4738
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) 'Now publishing and to be had at Mr Thomsons a new Pampf entitled England in Blood' was the title of an inflammatory pamphlet advertised to appear during the riots, for which one W. Moore [Probably the W. Moore of 22 Fleet Street who published 'The Whisperer', 17 Feb. 1770-7 Dec. 1771, a violent attack on North's Government. W. Plomer, 'Dict. of Printers and Booksellers, 1726-1775', 1932.] was arrested and committed to prison by Wilkes. See De Castro, 'Gordon Riots', pp. 77-8, 191, and BMSat 5829, 5844. John Wesley wrote to the 'Public Advertiser' a letter dated 21 Jan. 1780, approving of the Protestant Association and denouncing all concessions to the Church of Rome, which had great effect, see Tyer, 'Life and Times of Wesley', iii, pp. 318 ff. This was reprinted in other papers, see 'London Chronicle', 5-8 Feb., and Walpole, 'Last Journals', 1910, ii. 269.

The only print in the Catalogue directed against the Protestant Association and its propaganda, for which see BMSat 5534, &c. But cf. the gibe at Gordon in BMSat 6256. For the riots see BMSat 5679, &c.
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