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Badge plaquette

Badge plaquette

  • Place of origin:

    England, Great Britain (made)

  • Date:

    1710 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    unknown (production)

  • Museum number:

    A.98-1930

  • Gallery location:

    In store

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This plaquette was cast as a badge to be worn by partizans of Dr. Henry Sacheverell. Sacheverell was impeached in 1710 and suspended for three years for preaching in the city at St. Pauls on Passive Obedience to the rule of princes and against the administration which tolerated dissenters. Sacheverells chief opponent was David Burgess, a Pastor of the Presbyterian meeting house in Carey Street, Lincolns Inn. The populace enraged at his attack on Sacheverell broke into his chapel and ransacked it.

Physical description

Badge plaquette in lead representing Dr. Henry Sacheverell. The Dr is shown seated before a curtain holding on his knee a shield surmounted by a mitre inscribed "PASSIVE OBEDIENCE". His left leg placed upon an allegorical figure holding two snakes. From the arch in the background to the right a second figure inscribed above "BURGESS" approaches him with dagger and pistol, while to the right a third figure with ribbon inscribed "MODERATION" moves away.

Place of Origin

England, Great Britain (made)

Date

1710 (made)

Artist/maker

unknown (production)

Marks and inscriptions

"PASSIVE OBEDIENCE," "BURGESS," "MODERATION"

Dimensions

Height: 7.4 cm, Width: 8.9 cm

Descriptive line

of Dr Henry Sacheverell; Lead English 18C,1710

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Victoria and Albert Museum, Review of the Principal Acquisitions During the Year 1930. London. p. 87.
Franks, A. W., Grueber, H. A., eds. Medallic illustrations of the history of Great Britain and Ireland to the death of George II. 1911. CXXXII. no. 3.

Materials

Lead

Subjects depicted

Shield; Snakes; Curtain; Allegorical figure; Sacheverell, Henry (Dr.)

Categories

Portraits; Plaques & Plaquettes

Collection code

SCP

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