An Exact Perspective View of Dunmow

Date1752

Maker Charles Mosely

MediumEtching and line engraving on paper

DimensionsOverall: 15 3/4 x 22 1/2in. (40 x 57.2cm)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number2016-125

DescriptionThomas Shakeshaft of Weathersfield in Weaver and his wife Ann being carried in a sedan chair, surrounded by crowds, from the door of the church at left where they have taken an oath to the peace and happiness of their marriage in return for a flitch of gammon, which is carried before them on a pole; stout butcher figure standing in the left foreground, his wig removed an mopping his brow. Made by Charles Mosely after David Ogborne.

Inscription(s)Inscription beneath title reads: When Thomas Shakeshaft of the Parish of Weathersfield, in the County aforesaid / Weaver, & Ann his Wife came to Demand, & did Actually receive a Gammon of Bacon, / Having first kneelt down upon two bare stones, within the Church door, & taken the said / Oath, pursuant to the Antient Custom, in Manner & form prescribed as aforesaid.
ProvenanceBefore 2016, Sanders of Oxford (Oxford, England); 2016-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).