2-799-024 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Whistonian Controversy, from the picture by Mulready R.A., in the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1844. Illustration after a painting by William Mulready, or a scene from "The Vicar of Wakefield" by Oliver Goldsmith: '...representing the famous dispute on Monogamy...or Whiston's tenet, that it was unlawful for a priest of the Church of England, after the death of his first wife, to take a second. The disputants are the Vicar and his friend, a rosy-gilled, portly parson of the old school, Mr. Wilmot, whose daughter, Arabella, the Vicar's son is about to marry'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.