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- Creator:
- Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- October 1st, 1798.
- Call Number:
- Hogarth 798.10.01.06.1++ Box 310
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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., and Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 210.2.
- Publisher:
- Published by G.G. & J. Robinsons Pater-noster Row
- Subject (Name):
- Toft, Mary, 1703-1763, Villiers, George, 1690-1748., and Whitefield, George, 1714-1770
- Subject (Topic):
- Christianity, Superstition, Demonology, Demons, Ghosts, Rabbits, Witches, Sleeping, and Supervisors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Credulity, superstition and fanaticism a medley / [graphic]