Collection
Wesleyana Artifact Collection
This collection contains more than 260 items relating to John Wesley, his family, and Methodism. Approximately half of the collection consists of artifacts relating to John Wesley. The collection is organized in three series: I., Prominent Methodists; II., Methodist Events; and III., Miscellaneous artifacts. Series I, Prominent Methodists, is organized in two groups and three subgroups. Group A., Wesley family, includes subgroups John Wesley, Charles Wesley, and Other Wesleys. Group B. is Other Methodists. The collection includes images such as cameos, paintings, engravings, and photographs. Other artifacts include commemorative plates and plaques and other ceramic items, busts and figurines, medals, and other items. Prominent individuals in the collection are John Wesley, Charles Wesley, Samuel Wesley (1662-1735), Samuel Wesley (1691-1739), Susanna Annesley Wesley, Sarah Wesley, George Whitefield, Francis Asbury, Peter Doub, Enoch George, John Fletcher, William McKendree, and George Foster Pierce.
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Still imageThe late Revd. John Wesley, M.A. and 446 of the Preachers in his Connexion represented as assembled in City Road Chapel, London
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to useA nineteenth-century lithograph depicting John Wesley preaching at the City Road Chapel in London, addressing the 446 preachers in his connection. The lithograph was produced in the studio of William S. Pendleton (1795-1879) in Boston. Many of the individuals featured in the print are clearly identifiable by their printed engravings from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. One can quickly identify the familiar faces of Charles Wesley (1707-1788), John William Fletcher (1729-1785), Joseph Benson (1749-1821), and others. -
ArtifactBookmark with image of John Wesley
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to useBookmark with image of John Wesley, supposedly belonged to John Wesley. Framed. -
ArtifactStaffordshire bowl with printed image of John Wesley and Centenary Hall
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to useStaffordshire bowl with printed image of John Wesley and Centenary Hall. -
ArtifactStaffordshire plate with printed image of John Wesley and Centenary Hall
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to useStaffordshire plate with printed image of John Wesley and Centenary Hall. -
ArtifactSmall teacup and saucer with image of Epworth Church
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to useSmall teacup and saucer with image of Epworth Church, undated (nineteenth century). -
ArtifactStaffordshire teacup featuring John Wesley and Centenary Hall
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to useStaffordshire teacup inscribed "John Wesley, M.A. Born..." and "Centenary Hall and Mission House, London". -
ArtifactSmall jug with image of John Wesley and Centenary Hall
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to useSmall jug with image of John Wesley and Centenary Hall. -
ArtifactMug celebrating the centenary of Wesleyan Methodism
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to useMug inscribed "Celebration of the Centenary of Wesleyan Methodism Oct 28th, 1839" and "Rev. John Wesley Founder of Methodism Born June 17th 1703, Died Mar 2nd 1791" with images of Centenary Hall and John Wesley after J. Barry. Repaired. -
Still imageFramed portrait of Methodist Bishop, George Foster Pierce
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to useAn oil portrait of the Bishop George Foster Pierce of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Pierce served as president at both Georgia Female College (Wesleyan) and Emory College. -
Still imageProfile portrait of John Wesley
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to useA portrait of John Wesley done in profile. He holds a bible in his left hand, with his right raised as if to address an unseen audience. -
Still imageEngraving of "The Ordination of Bishop Asbury and Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Dec. 27th, 1784 at the Christmas Conference held in Lovely Lane Chapel, Baltimore, Md."
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to useAn engraving created after a painting by Thomas Coke Ruckle depicting the ordination of Bishop Francis Ashbury Pratt in Baltimore, Maryland. -
Still imageEngraving of "John Wesley and His Friends at Oxford"
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to useAn engraving based on a painting by Marshall Claxton depicting a young John Wesley in dialog with other students at Oxford University. -
Still imageEngraving of "The Revd. John Wesley, M.A., Preaching on his Father's Tombstone in Epworth Churchyard"
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to useAn engraving based on a painting by Alfred Hunt depicting John Wesley preaching to a crowd at the site of his father, Samuel Wesley's, grave at St. Andrew's Church in Epworth, England. -
Still imageEngraving of "The Death-Bed of Wesley"
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to useAn engraving based on a painting by Marshall Claxton depicting a crowd gathered at the bedside of John Wesley who appears to be saying a final prayer. -
TextLetter of authenticity for the Japanned metal box owned by John Wesley (95-001-092)
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to useA letter and transcription detailing the provenance of a Japanned metal box which once belonged to John Wesley and tracing the box's ownership from Wesley to Pitts Theology Library via a purchase of Wesleyana by Bishop Warren A. Candler in 1911 from the Thursfield Smith Collection of Wesleyana. -
Still imagePhotograph of scene on Edisto Island where Thomas Coke and William Hammet were shipwrecked en route to 1791 annual conference in Charleston, SC.
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to useA photograph of a painting by W. A. Walker depicting Edisto Island where Thomas Coke and William Hammet were shipwrecked on their way to the 1791 Annual Conference of the South Carolina Methodist Church. -
TextSchedule of worship services in the Maidstone Circuit
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to useA schedule showing when and where services will be held along the Maidstone Circuit for the year 1859. -
TextScrapbook of articles about John Wesley
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to useA scrapbook detailing a number of biographical accounts of John Wesley and his family. The majority of the content appears to be newsprint clipped and pasted into another published book, with snippets of the original text sometimes visible between clippings. -
TextJohn Wesley: A Lecture by Rev. Canon Overton, M.A., Rector of Epworth, Delivered at Davos Platz, Switzerland, 1897 Aug.
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to useThe text of a lecture given by Rev. Canon Overton in Epworth on John Wesley and the history of Methodism. -
TextWesleyan Methodism in France
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to useA history of the spread and influence of Weslyan Methodism throughout France. -
TextThe Wesleyan Centenary Picture
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to useAn account of the Wesleyan Conference's activities in recognition of the centenary of Wesleyan Methodism.
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