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Date: 1831
Format: Drawn in the back of a 1830-31 field notebook
Description: According to Rudwick (1975), this scene "shows a publication of the Religious Tract Society being offered to an apparently undernourished young woman, while others kneel in the background bearing other tracts in their upturned hands as if receiving the Sacrament. [...] This would seem to be a sharp comment on one of the establishment's most approved responses to social problems at the time."
From the same notebook as John [Bull] and his Grandees and a number of anti-Lyell cartoons.
Format: Drawn in the back of a 1830-31 field notebook
Description: According to Rudwick (1975), this scene "shows a publication of the Religious Tract Society being offered to an apparently undernourished young woman, while others kneel in the background bearing other tracts in their upturned hands as if receiving the Sacrament. [...] This would seem to be a sharp comment on one of the establishment's most approved responses to social problems at the time."
From the same notebook as John [Bull] and his Grandees and a number of anti-Lyell cartoons.
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Sources & further discussion:
McCartney, Paul J. (1977). Henry De la Beche: Observations on an Observer. Friends of the National Museum of Wales.
Rudwick, M. J. (1975). Caricature as a source for the history of science: De la Beche's anti-Lyellian sketches of 1831. Isis, 66(4), 534-560. Link [journals.uchicago.edu]
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McCartney (1977).
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