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1 photomechanical print : halftone ; border 23 x 30.5 cm

Mount Zouquala, Abyssinia: hermits exorcising devils. Process print after F.C. Dickinson after Dr. Koelitz.

Four drawings attributed to a follower of Richard Westall.

1 drawing : pencil ; sheet 50.3 x 60.2 cm

Two turbaned men with two women approach the cave of an anchorite: he welcomes them to his cave. Pencil drawing attributed to a follower of R. Westall.

1 print : line engraving with etching ; 20.2 x 13.8 cm

Samuel Mathews, a hermit. Engraving by J. Greig, 1803, after G. Arnald.

1 print : stipple engraving ; platemark 18.9 x 11.3 cm

S. Barrett, a hermit. Stipple engraving by C. Doyle, 1807.

1 print : etching ; platemark 27.2 x 17.5 cm

John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Etching attributed to R. Livesay, 1787.

Early English books online

The English hermite, or, Wonder of this age : being a relation of the life of Roger Crab, living near Uxbridg, taken from his own mouth, shewing his strange, reserved, and unparallel'd kind of life, who counteth it a sin against his body and soule to eate any sort of flesh...or to drink any wine...he left the army and kept a shop at Chesham, and hath now left off that, and sold a considerable estate to give to the poore, shewing his reasons from the Scripture.

<p>The lettering from another print (record no. 167) states that the sitter was "baptised 22d. April 1629 buried 4th. April 1696. Browne Willis gives the particulars of this man out of a letter written to him by Thos. Herne dated Oxon Feby 12: 1712 He was formerly clerk to Simon Mayne of Dinton one of the Judges who passed sentence on King Charles the First, he lived at Dinton (co.Bucks) in a cave, he had been a man of tolerable wealth, was looked upon as a pretty good scholar, and of no contemtable parts, upon the Restoration he grew melancholy, betook himself to a recluse life, and lived by charity, but never asked for anything but leather, which he would immediately nail to his clothes, he kept 3 bottles that hung to his girdle, viz for strong & small beer & milk, his shoes are still preserved they are very large and made up of about a thousand patches of leather, one of them is in the Bodleian Repository the other in the collection of Sr. John Vanhatten of Dinton who had his cave dug up some years since, in hopes of discovering something relative to him, but without success".</p>

John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Line engraving by Wilkes.

<p>An episode in Gil Blas, book 4, chapters IX-XI</p>

1 print : engraving ; platemark 20.1 x 13.7 cm

An episode in 'Gil Blas': Gil Blas and Don Alphonso, on the road from Toledo to Cuenca, receive advice from a hermit who subsequently reveals himself as their friend Don Raphael in disguise. Engraving by F. Engleheart after R. Smirke.

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 16.1 x 13 cm

A hermit at prayer. Engraving by A.H. Payne after G. Dou.

1 print : engraving, with gouache ; image 6.3 x 6.1 cm

An anchoress or nun of an enclosed order locked in her cell; representing the monastic cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured engraving, 16--.

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Mount Zouquala, Abyssinia: hermits exorcising devils. Process print after F.C. Dickinson after Dr. Koelitz.

Two turbaned men with two women approach the cave of an anchorite: he welcomes them to his cave. Pencil drawing attributed to a follower of R. Westall.

Samuel Mathews, a hermit. Engraving by J. Greig, 1803, after G. Arnald.

S. Barrett, a hermit. Stipple engraving by C. Doyle, 1807.

John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Etching attributed to R. Livesay, 1787.

John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Line engraving by Wilkes.

An episode in 'Gil Blas': Gil Blas and Don Alphonso, on the road from Toledo to Cuenca, receive advice from a hermit who subsequently reveals himself as their friend Don Raphael in disguise. Engraving by F. Engleheart after R. Smirke.

A hermit at prayer. Engraving by A.H. Payne after G. Dou.

An anchoress or nun of an enclosed order locked in her cell; representing the monastic cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured engraving, 16--.

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Mount Zouquala, Abyssinia: hermits exorcising devils. Process print after F.C. Dickinson after Dr. Koelitz.

Two turbaned men with two women approach the cave of an anchorite: he welcomes them to his cave. Pencil drawing attributed to a follower of R. Westall.

Samuel Mathews, a hermit. Engraving by J. Greig, 1803, after G. Arnald.

S. Barrett, a hermit. Stipple engraving by C. Doyle, 1807.

John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Etching attributed to R. Livesay, 1787.

John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Line engraving by Wilkes.

An episode in 'Gil Blas': Gil Blas and Don Alphonso, on the road from Toledo to Cuenca, receive advice from a hermit who subsequently reveals himself as their friend Don Raphael in disguise. Engraving by F. Engleheart after R. Smirke.

A hermit at prayer. Engraving by A.H. Payne after G. Dou.

An anchoress or nun of an enclosed order locked in her cell; representing the monastic cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured engraving, 16--.

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