IMAGE
Artist unknown :The sinner on the Cutty Stool. [1825]
- Date
- 1825
- By
- Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961
- Reference
- A-147-008-1
- Description
A scene in a crowded chapel. A young man, Alexander Fletcher, standing on a stool, holds a lighted taper. He is draped in a sheet. Above him, a preacher leans from the pulpit with a denunciatory gesture. An illustration from a satirical work 'The trial of the Rev Alexander Fletcher ... before the Lord Chief Justice of common Sense ...' [1825] showing a version of a court case in 1824 when Rec Fletcher was prosecuted for breach of promise to marry Miss Eliza Park.
A cutty stool was a small 3-legged stool on which sinners stood to be rebuked in the Scotch Church.
Associated with a similar print by the same artist, 'Wrestling with the sinner' (A-147-008)
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 119 x 185 mm
Provenance: Formerly part of an album, once owned by A W F Fuller
- Additional description
On verso of A-147-007: Charles Heaphy, The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Aquatints, Aquatint, hand-coloured, 119 x 185 mm
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