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Subject: composite three-dimension portrait, achieved by individual portraits having been cut out and pasted to board, beginning with founder of Primitive Methodism, Hugh Bourne, as No. 1. Key is on separate board, though whether this is original or due to damage is unclear.

Subject: Two almost identical versions of the same scene, labeled "Proof" and "First Class Proof, No. 295," in which approximately 100 men are meeting in large hall, as women (mainly) look on from galleries above. The latter, numbered image is slightly smaller, has captions in script rather than block letters, and adds a small bust of JW to center bottom margin.

Prints of engraved portraits from Arminian Magazine, founded by JW in 1778, and Methodist Magazine, to which it was renamed in 1798. It was re-named again in 1822 to Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, housed in a separate subseries below. Prints from these first two series of the magazine are almost all from copper-plate engravings, and this partially accounts for many of the apparent duplicates. FB studied the fact that copper-plate images, due to the softness of the metal, change over the course of many printings; many of these prints bear evidence of his study, usually in the form of penciled notes that label slight variants as A, B, C, etc.

Prints of photographic portraits from The Congregationalist magazine. Unarranged.

Prints of engraved portraits from The Evangelical Magazine, from 1790s into the 1820s. Unarranged