John Wesley preaching on his fathers grave: in the church yard at Epworth Sunday June 6th 1742 – Vintage Print
![John Wesley preaching on his fathers grave: in the church yard at Epworth Sunday June 6th 1742, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d3/d34a250db838-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of John Wesley preaching on his fathers grave: in the church yard at Epworth Sunday June 6th 1742. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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John Wesley preaching on his fathers grave: in the church yard at Epworth Sunday June 6th 1742
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John Wesley preaching at his father's grave in the churchyard at Epworth, Lincolnshire, on Sunday, June 6, 1742, is the scene this hand-colored lithograph sets out to show. Samuel Wesley, the Anglican rector of Epworth, had died in 1735, and his son was refused the use of the parish church pulpit, so the founder of Methodism addressed a large crowd outdoors among the gravestones. The print comes from the Currier & Ives firm of New York, which issued many sentimental and religious scenes for a wide popular market in the nineteenth century. Its subject, a field sermon in a churchyard, was a favorite of Methodist and evangelical storytelling.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3549 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,327 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174823 |
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