Credulity, superstition and fanaticism a medley / [graphic]

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Title: Credulity, superstition and fanaticism a medley / [graphic]
Creator: Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
G. G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row, London, England), publisher.
Published / Created: October 1st, 1798.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by G.G. & J. Robinsons Pater-noster Row
Abstract: "The interior of a chapel with an impassioned preacher inspiring his listeners; considerably altered from the earlier state known as "Enthusiasm Delineated", for instance, by the substitution of representations of the Cock Lane Ghost (a topical reference to a fraud of 1762) for the figures of Christ, the removal of the barking dog, and the introduction of rabbits emerging from the skirts of the woman swooning on the floor in allusion to Mary Toft, the Rabbit Woman of Godlaming."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Quote below title: "Believe not every Spirit; but try the Spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the World. 1. John. Ch. 4. V. 1".
Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2896.
Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 210.2.
Provenance: Found loose in Kinnaird Collection.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 446 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 51.2 x 41.3 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Engravings England London 1798
Material: engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
Villiers, George, 1690-1748.
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770
Subject (Topic): Christianity
Superstition
Demonology
Demons
Ghosts
Rabbits
Witches
Sleeping
Supervisors
Subjects: Toft, Mary, 1703-1763 > Caricatures and cartoons
Villiers, George, 1690-1748
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770 > Caricatures and cartoons
Christianity
Superstition
Demonology
Demons
Ghosts
Rabbits
Witches
Sleeping
Supervisors
England > 1798
England > London > 1798

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