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Enthusiasm display'd: or, the Moor Fields congregation, British Cartoon Print

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Enthusiasm display'd: or, the Moor Fields congregation, British Cartoon Print

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The print shows evangelical Methodist minister George 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.
(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).

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1600 - 1700
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