V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Joanna Southcott, a stout termagant, stands in back view directed slightly to the right, gathering up her petticoats to display her person to three doctors who gaze closely at her. She is grossly caricatured, with no resemblance to her portraits. She says, her head turned in profile to the right, and looking up with a triumphant smile: "Seeing is believing are you Now satisfied theres no [sic] Behold the Naked Truth most Learned Doctors." The doctors, who are crouching for closer inspection, say respectively: "It has a confounded strange appeara[nce]"; "I have my doubts"; "I cant help suspecting". Across her posteriors, defined by the pulling up of her petticoats, is engraved: 'Aged 64 Bladders of Blasphemy and Corruption Sealed up and Ready to Burst'. On the left is a large cradle of straw in which is seated a grotesque parson with horns projecting from his forehead; he holds a spoon and a bowl inscribed 'Caudle'; beside him is a paper: 'Cradle Hymns'. He leers cunningly. The cradle is inscribed 'Parson Towser' and 'Cradle for Joanna's Boar Pig'. A bird-like demon, grinning grotesquely, crouches on the head of the cradle. Against it lies a sack inscribed 'Donations Child Bed Linen for young Beelzebub'. Beside this lie a large coral and bells, pap-spoon, syringes, a little saucepan, &c. (presents from the faithful). Beside Johanna (right) is a chest (as in British Museum Satires No. 12334) inscribed 'Joanna Southcot's Prophecys' and 'Seals for Sale'. Other things beside it are a syringe inscribed 'infusion of Devils Dose', a paper inscribed 'Game of Humbug', a bowl of 'Cock Broth for Tom Tozer', and a decanter of 'Strong Water'. In the background, framed by large curtains, are a pulpit and a high latticed window, suggesting a chapel interior."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miracles will never cease
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 340., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately?, The doctors have been identified in the British Museum catalogue as Richard Reece and Dr. John Sims., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prophecy -- Anecdotes -- *Religious mania., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 320 x 257 mm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of numbering from upper right.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sept. 8, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Sims, John, 1749-1831
Subject (Topic):
Obstetrics, Clergy, Cradles, Demons, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, Prophets, and Pregnancy
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Joanna Southcott, a stout termagant, stands in back view directed slightly to the right, gathering up her petticoats to display her person to three doctors who gaze closely at her. She is grossly caricatured, with no resemblance to her portraits. She says, her head turned in profile to the right, and looking up with a triumphant smile: "Seeing is believing are you Now satisfied theres no [sic] Behold the Naked Truth most Learned Doctors." The doctors, who are crouching for closer inspection, say respectively: "It has a confounded strange appeara[nce]"; "I have my doubts"; "I cant help suspecting". Across her posteriors, defined by the pulling up of her petticoats, is engraved: 'Aged 64 Bladders of Blasphemy and Corruption Sealed up and Ready to Burst'. On the left is a large cradle of straw in which is seated a grotesque parson with horns projecting from his forehead; he holds a spoon and a bowl inscribed 'Caudle'; beside him is a paper: 'Cradle Hymns'. He leers cunningly. The cradle is inscribed 'Parson Towser' and 'Cradle for Joanna's Boar Pig'. A bird-like demon, grinning grotesquely, crouches on the head of the cradle. Against it lies a sack inscribed 'Donations Child Bed Linen for young Beelzebub'. Beside this lie a large coral and bells, pap-spoon, syringes, a little saucepan, &c. (presents from the faithful). Beside Johanna (right) is a chest (as in British Museum Satires No. 12334) inscribed 'Joanna Southcot's Prophecys' and 'Seals for Sale'. Other things beside it are a syringe inscribed 'infusion of Devils Dose', a paper inscribed 'Game of Humbug', a bowl of 'Cock Broth for Tom Tozer', and a decanter of 'Strong Water'. In the background, framed by large curtains, are a pulpit and a high latticed window, suggesting a chapel interior."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miracles will never cease
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 340., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately?, The doctors have been identified in the British Museum catalogue as Richard Reece and Dr. John Sims., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prophecy -- Anecdotes -- *Religious mania., 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; sheet 36.8 x 26.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Probably a later impression from a worn plate; numbering in upper right is lightly printed and barely visible.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sept. 8, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Sims, John, 1749-1831
Subject (Topic):
Obstetrics, Clergy, Cradles, Demons, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, Prophets, and Pregnancy
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Joanna Southcott, a stout termagant, stands in back view directed slightly to the right, gathering up her petticoats to display her person to three doctors who gaze closely at her. She is grossly caricatured, with no resemblance to her portraits. She says, her head turned in profile to the right, and looking up with a triumphant smile: "Seeing is believing are you Now satisfied theres no [sic] Behold the Naked Truth most Learned Doctors." The doctors, who are crouching for closer inspection, say respectively: "It has a confounded strange appeara[nce]"; "I have my doubts"; "I cant help suspecting". Across her posteriors, defined by the pulling up of her petticoats, is engraved: 'Aged 64 Bladders of Blasphemy and Corruption Sealed up and Ready to Burst'. On the left is a large cradle of straw in which is seated a grotesque parson with horns projecting from his forehead; he holds a spoon and a bowl inscribed 'Caudle'; beside him is a paper: 'Cradle Hymns'. He leers cunningly. The cradle is inscribed 'Parson Towser' and 'Cradle for Joanna's Boar Pig'. A bird-like demon, grinning grotesquely, crouches on the head of the cradle. Against it lies a sack inscribed 'Donations Child Bed Linen for young Beelzebub'. Beside this lie a large coral and bells, pap-spoon, syringes, a little saucepan, &c. (presents from the faithful). Beside Johanna (right) is a chest (as in British Museum Satires No. 12334) inscribed 'Joanna Southcot's Prophecys' and 'Seals for Sale'. Other things beside it are a syringe inscribed 'infusion of Devils Dose', a paper inscribed 'Game of Humbug', a bowl of 'Cock Broth for Tom Tozer', and a decanter of 'Strong Water'. In the background, framed by large curtains, are a pulpit and a high latticed window, suggesting a chapel interior."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Miracles will never cease
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 340., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Also issued separately?, The doctors have been identified in the British Museum catalogue as Richard Reece and Dr. John Sims., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prophecy -- Anecdotes -- *Religious mania., and Leaf 92 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sept. 8, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Tozer, William, approximately 1770-1828, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Sims, John, 1749-1831
Subject (Topic):
Obstetrics, Clergy, Cradles, Demons, Medical equipment & supplies, Physicians, Prophets, and Pregnancy
V. 5. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A scene outside Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam). Joanna Southcott, grotesquely pregnant, bestrides a dog wearing clerical gown and bands, its collar inscribed 'Tozer'. She and the dog advance menacingly towards a preaching boot-maker (left), who rants, standing on a stool. The dog barks savagely: "Bow woo woo"; she flourishes a broom and an open book: 'The Propheci[es] of Johanna Southcote', saying, "Begone Satan, or I shall Lay Thee." She is pushed forward by a dwarfish and hideous artisan, who has a pair of large snuffers thrust through his ragged coat. The bootmaker yells with outspread arms: "I say, your prophecies are d--d lies & Old Touzler the father of 'em I'll expose you I will you Old Brimstone you're a Cheat!--& a faggot! & a bag of Deceit! Out upon you! out upon you! you Blasphemous old Hag." A pair of Hessian boots dangles from his waist; he wears misshapen boots of similar type; a hammer is thrust through the belt of his leather apron, and he wears clerical bands and wide-brimmed hat. A little chimney-sweep cheers on the dog: "Well done Tozer." A grinning bystander shouts "well done Boots! close in upon her." A crowd of grinning spectators is freely sketched. On the extreme right three doctors stand in consultation, alarmed for their professional reputations. One, probably Reece, holding his cane to his face, says: "I'll pledge my reputation on her being so." Another, holding behind his back a bag of obstetrical instruments, says: "I think 'tis a cancer." He is Dr. John Sims, 'an accoucheur of great eminence'. The third asks: "Have you touch'd her Doctor." A fashionably dressed man watches them through an eye-glass, saying, "What crotchet have the Doctors got now!!!?" In the background is the façade of the rebuilt hospital, inscribed 'New Bethlehem 1814'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Obstetric dispute
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Text after curly bracket following title: Vide Johanna Southcote and the public disputations., Plate numbered "338" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 5., Watermark: 1817., and Leaf 47 in volume 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. Septr. 1814 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814, Reece, Richard, 1775-1831, and Sims, John, 1749-1831
