Image:AssemblyOfQuakers.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

No higher resolution available.

AssemblyOfQuakers.jpg‎ (500 × 383 pixel, file size: 88 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Quaker Meeting in London: A female Quaker preaches (c.1723), engraving by Bernard Picard (1673-1733).

The Quakers were known for their egalitarian treatment of women. A female preacher was unheard of in other 18th century western churches.

From

  • http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Annodomini/THEME_14/EN/theme14-4-sec.html
  • or http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Annodomini/THEME_14/FR/theme-fr-14-4-sec.html

(curiously the caption on this French version appears to a re-translation of the English, rather than using the original caption on the engraving)

Documentary reproduction of an image where copyright has now lapsed.


Public license
This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.

File history

Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
Click on date to download the file or see the image uploaded on that date.

  • (del) (cur) 14:00, 11 September 2004 . . Solipsist ( Talk | contribs) . . 500×383 (90,301 bytes) (''Quaker Meeting in London: A Woman Speaks'' (c.1723), Bernard Picard (1673-1733). )

  • Edit this file using an external application

    See the setup instructions for more information.

The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AssemblyOfQuakers.jpg"