A preacher standing inside a barrel and preaching repentance arouses guilt, alarm and confusion in the minds of his audience. Engraving by T. Sanders after Tim Bobbin (John Collier).

Previous title, replaced April 2024 : A man stands inside a barrel surrounded by a crowd of people some with bandages and some with books in their hands. Engraving by T. Sanders after Tim Bobbin (John Collier).

[Rochdale] : [Tim Bobbin], May 1773.

1 print : engraving ; image 18.5 x 32 cm

They who have ears to hear let them hear. Behold this group of oddities, and then / You'll see how fancy works in diff'rent men! / How conscience warp'd distorts each holy face, / Makes sighs and groans burst from these babes of grace. / One feels the Devil dancing in his maw; / Another's su'd him to a mere out-law. / Some feel sharp thorns their consciences to prick / And old done deeds do make their stomachs sick. / Whilst lasses mourn some late transactions past, / And looks repentant say -; they are my last. /Thus crazy heads are whirl'd about with wind / Puff'd out from crafty knaves of ev'ry kind. Tim Bobbin inv. et del. T. Sanders sculp.

Carole Reeves (ed.), A cultural history of the human body: in the age of enlightenment, Oxford: Berg, 2010, p. 47

Wellcome Collection 32975i