The Lockdown Chronicles 6: John

~ Ernesto Priego

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John is homeless and lives alone in a cave.
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John Bigg (bapt. 22 April 1629 – bur. 4 April 1696), also known as The Dinton Hermit, was a 17th-century English hermit. [Wikipedia entry]

Text adapted from: various sources including Hearne 1869 and Caulfield 1819. (Internet Archive)

Source images: Panels 1 and 2: John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Etching attributed to R. Livesay, 1787, Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0. Panel 3: Handmade leather shoe which belonged to John Bigg, the ‘Dinton Hermit’ (AN1836p141.392) © University of Oxford, Ashmolean Museum. Panels 4 and 5: John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Line engraving by Wilkes. Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0. This comic strip CC-BY-NC-SA.

References

Hearne, Thomas (1869). “To Mr. Browne Willis, Feb. 12, 1712”. Reliquiae Hearnianae. 1. London, England. p. 275-276. Internet Archive. Available from https://archive.org/details/reliquiaehearni03blisgoog/page/n294/mode/2up [Accessed 15 April 2020]

Caulfield, James (1819). “Bigg, John, the Dinton Hermit”. Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons. 1. London, England. p. 9-11. Internet Archive. Available from https://archive.org/details/portraitsmemoirs01incaul/page/9/mode/2up [Accessed 15 April 2020]

“British Collection Highlights: The Dinton Hermit’s Shoe”. British Archeology at the Ashmolean Museum. Available from https://britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/highlights/dinton-hermits-shoes.html [Accessed 15 April 2020]

John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Etching attributed to R. Livesay, 1787, Wellcome Collection, Available from https://wellcomecollection.org/works/etgjqzff [Accessed 15 April 2020]

John Bigg, an eccentric hermit. Line engraving by Wilkes. Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/f5hqp67m  [Accessed 15 April 2020]

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The Lockdown Chronicles is a series of periodical comic strips made at night (in candlelight!) adapting and reusing openly-licensed or public domain items from online digital collections. Publication and tweetage are scheduled in advance. Historical sources are adapted and updated for the current pandemic; please refer to each strip’s references on each post for further context.  Catch up with the series at https://epriego.blog/tag/the-lockdown-chronicles/.

Published by Ernesto Priego

I'm a lecturer, researcher and editor. I'm interested in many things and do work in many areas. I'm into human-computer interaction design, digital humanities, comics studies, scholarly communications, open access, open data, ethics, public health, politics, media, journalism, human rights. You can follow me on Twitter @ernestopriego.