Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
Call Number
E South 11/GC021/Box 07/Normal/18th c./Artists Dighton-Grose GA 2011.00626
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcws859t43x
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1773/01/01.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1773
Extent
1 item ; sheet 40.1 x 26.6 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
British Museum. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires. [London]: Trustees of the British Museum, [1978]. No. 4609 (gives date as c. 1770).
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Engravings
Depiction: Caricature regarding seduction. Beautiful young woman tempts man in front of church by putting her arms around him to lead him away; elderly woman encourages man to resist by waving Whitfield's hymn book toward the church.
Signed in plate, lower left: "J. Collet pinxt.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "J. Goldar sculp.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Temptation—Caricatures and cartoons
Lust—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/cb567d1a-660d-45ec-94a4-1aeeeeeff583/manifest