The Epworth Collection

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Print showing the rescue of John Wesley from the fire at the Rectory

Depicting the previous Epworth Rectory on fire. On the left of the painting stands the Rectory, large flames are coming from the roof and the top of the building. From a first floor window the 6 year old John Wesley is being rescued by a man. The man is standing on the shoulders of another man. Many people are helping the two men. On the right of the painting another group of people is standing, holding on to each other (some part of the Wesley family). In front of the group on the right is one man praying towards the house on one knee. To the side of the house men are taking a horse and a cow out of the building. In the background are more people, other buildings and the Parish Church of Epworth. The sky is dark with the moonlight shining through the clouds. In a gold painted, ornamented, wooden frame

Category: print

Material Part: picture

Inscription:

printed - underneath image

To the MINISTERS and MEMBERS of the WESLEY METHODIST SOCIETIES throughout the WORLD, together with the CHRISTIAN PUBLIC generally. This print representing the Providential Deliverance of JOHN WESLEY, when Six years of age, from the Fire by which the Parsonage house at Epworth in Lincolnshire was destroyed in the night of February 9th 1709. Taken from the original Picture painted & presented by the artist to the Conference, to be placed in the Centenary Hall, LONDON, to Commemorate of the CENTENARY OF METHODISM celebrated October 1839. Is most respectfully Dedicated, by their very obedient Servant HENRY PERLEE PARKER

Measurements:

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height 902 mm
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width 1181 mm

Object Number: 2009-367

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