File:Apocrypha combatants. No 1. - The fight of faith. (BM 1868,0808.8737).jpg
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Apocrypha combatants. No 1. The fight of faith.
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Apocrypha combatants. No 1. The fight of faith. |
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English: See No. 15573. Below the title: 'Or the Idol Bel and the Dragon'. Thomson (1.) stands menacingly over Henry Grey, who reclines on the ground, leaning against a tombstone on which a greyhound is depicted with the inscription 'Beth Gelert. The grave of the GRA Y. Hound' [title, used punningly, of a ballad by W. R. Spencer, on Llewellyn's famous dog]. Both ministers wear Geneva gowns with bands. Thomson holds out to his enemy a letter signed 'Anglicanus' and raises above his head a volume of his own 'Christian Instructor'. He says: 'You are the Author of that infamous libel; with this weapon i smite all my enemies. Take that blow for your temerity'. Grey, who weeps, but smiles reproachfully, answers: '/ vow that I am not, Spare me, Spare me!! from another blow, and I shall pray for thee' [see No. 15577]. 1828
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Henry Grey | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1828 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1868,0808.8737 |
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| Notes |
(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954) Thomson devoted his Christian Instructor for January 1828 (58 pp.) to a virulent attack on Letters by 'Anglicanus', which he accused Grey of writing, helped by 'a lady' (Mrs. Grey, see No. 15575) and John Grey of Dilston. Henry Grey wrote a letter to the Scotsman (dated 28 Jan.) explaining his share in the publication of the Letters, which he had not concealed: he conveyed them to the printer and saw them through the press, but had no part in their composition (see No. 15575). See A Letter from John Grey, Esq [of Dilston] in reply to the Calumnies of the Rev. Andrew Thomson, D.D . . ., Newcastle, 1828 (to which H. Grey's letter to the Scotsman is appended). Throughout the series Henry Grey has a sinister smile, his 'mask' as Thomson called it: he enraged the latter by professing Christian charity and forgiveness. His English birth, good manners, handsome appearance, and 'gentility' gave offence to his more forceful, more unrestrained, and more provincial opponent, who is thickset, with curly hair, and blunt, almost simian features. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-8737 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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