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The Spirit is Willing but the Flesh is Weak   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: John Goldar

After: John Collet
After: William Hogarth (loosely based on)
Published by: Robert Sayer
Published by: John Smith of Cheapside
Title
The Spirit is Willing but the Flesh is Weak
Description
English: Satire on religious hypocrisy. A minister, dressed in the manner of a Quaker with long hair and a broad-brimmed hat, is accosted by, on the left, an attractively dressed and smiling young woman who puts her arm on his shoulder and pulls at his sleeve with the other; he looks sidelong at her, while raising a hand, perhaps in blessing, towards an older woman, on the right, plainly-dressed, who grasps his arm with one hand while the other, holding "Whitefields Hymns", gestures towards George Whitfield's tabernacle (in Tottenham Court Road). In the background, to left, is a tavern with a sign reading, "the Old Goat new Revived" beside which hangs a bunch of grapes; an ass stands beneath the sign between a basket and a barrow of hay. 1 January 1773.
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Date 1773
date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 368 millimetres
Width: 257 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1866,1110.1449
Notes The composition is based on the central image in Hogarth's March to Finchley (also set in Tottenham Court Road), and alludes to the Judgement of Hercules.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-1110-1449
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