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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TextNew Biographical Series - No. 6, John Wesley
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to useA short biography of John Wesley published as part of a series of biographical sketches by the Religious Tract Society. -
Still imageEngraving of "Mrs. Susanna Wesley"
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to useAn engraving of Susanna Wesley, the mother of John and Charles Wesley. It is identical to 95-001-216. -
Still imageEngraving of "Mrs. Susanna Wesley"
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to useAn engraving of Susanna Wesley, the mother of John and Charles Wesley. It is identical to 95-001-217. -
Still imageEngraving of "Mrs. Susannah Wesley (Mother of John Wesley)"
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to useAn engraving of Susanna Wesley, the mother of John and Charles Wesley. -
Still imageEngraving of "Mrs. Sarah Wesley, Widow of the late Rev. Charles Wesley now living near London, in the ninety eighth year of her age"
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to useAn engraving of Sarah Wesley, the wife of Charles Wesley. -
Still imageEngraving of "S[usannah] Wesley: Mother of the Rev'd. John Wesley"
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to useAn engraving of Susanna Wesley, the mother of John and Charles Wesley, based on the Williams portrait of her. -
Still imageEngraving of "Samuel Wesley [Aged Nineteen]"
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to useAn engraving of Samuel Wesley, the father of John and Charles Wesley, as a young man. It is identical to 95-001-211. -
Still imageEngraving of "Samuel Wesley [Aged Nineteen]"
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to useAn engraving of Samuel Wesley, the father of John and Charles Wesley, as a young man. It is identical to 95-001-212. -
Still imageEngraving of "Samuel Wesley: Father of the Wesleys"
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to useAn engraving of Samuel Wesley, the father of John and Charles Wesley. -
Still imageEngraving of "C[harles] Wesley. The Poet of Methodism"
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to useAn engraving of Charles Wesley, brother of John Wesley. -
TextIn Memory of John Wesley: A Parody
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to useA manuscript of a poem written by an unknown author in response to the death of John Wesley to be printed in the Public Advertiser. Considering the tone of the poem, the author was not a supporter of Wesley's work. -
TextGrain of Mustard Seed: A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley at Founding the Benevolent or Strangers' Friend Society
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to useA printed set of correspondence between John Gardner and John Wesley concerning the funding of a new branch of the "Benevolent or Strangers' Friend Society." -
Still imagePhotograph of a letter from John Wesley to George Whitefield, 1785
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to useA photograph of a letter from John Wesley to George Whitefield with a transcription on the reverse and an additional transcription of an exerpt from John Wesley's diary on the date when the letter was written. -
Still imagePhotograph of the Epworth Rectory
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to useA photograph of the rectory building in Epworth, England, the hometown of John Wesley. -
Still imageEngraving of "The Birth-Place of the Rev. John Wesley, Epworth, Lincolnshire"
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to useAn engraving of the house in Epworth, England, where John Wesley was born. -
Still imageEngraving of "The John Wesley Missionary Ship"
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to useAn engraving of the "John Wesley," a Methodist missionary ship, which conducted most of its mission work in the South Sea in and around Australia and New Zealand. -
Still imageEngraving of "Wesley's Escape from Fire"
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to useAn engraving based on the painting by H. P. Parker depicting the fire which razed John Wesley's childhood home in Epworth, England. Wesley was five years old at the time and was only barely rescued from the burning building before it collapsed. -
Still imageSepia drawing, "The Death of Rev'd. John Wesley"
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to useA sepia drawing depicting John Wesley on his death bead, a bible in his hand as he looks up towards heaven. -
Still imageEngraving of "Revd. John Wesley A.M. Lying in State, City Road Chapel. London, 1791"
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to useAn engraving of John Wesley's body lying in state at the City Road Chapel in London. -
Still imageJohn Wesley trading cards
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to useA set of thirteen trading cards with scenes from the life and death of John Wesley. Images include monuments to John Wesley and "Mrs. Wesley," Charles Wesley's tomb, John Wesley's funeral, John Wesley on his deathbed, John Wesley lying in state, John Wesley preaching at the funeral of George Whitefield, portraits of the Wesley family, John Wesley meeting with Lady Huntingdon, John Wesley in Bristol, John Wesley in Wednesbury, etc. -
Still imageEngraving of John Wesley
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to useAn engraving of a profile relief cameo of John Wesley from the cover of "The Ladies Repository" Cincinnati and New York.
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