Title from item., Date derived from year Mary Toft reported giving birth to rabbits., Place of publication derived from language of text and subject., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Anecdotes; Frauds.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Toft, Mary, 1703-1763.
Subject (Topic):
Hoaxes, Rabbits, Breeding, Prenatal influences, Obstetrics, and Women
"Satire on Mary Toft, the "rabbit breeder" and those who were duped by her fraud. The interior of a large room, presumably intended as Lacy's bagnio in Leicester Fields, in the centre of which Toft reclines on a chair attended by a doctor, John Howard, while a gentleman identified by Stephens as Nathaniel St André, wearing a hat, has laid down a walking stick and kneels to lift a rabbit that is emerging from below her skirts. On the left, three men enter through an open door, the foremost, evidently John Maubray, holding up a specimen bottle and grasping by the shoulder another doctor, who points towards Toft; another holding a staff aplpears to be a constable. Other men (one perhaps intended as her husband) gather behind Toft's chair; Samuel Molyneux, wearing a hat and holding a walking stick turns away in disgust as a midwife holds up a "new-born" rabbit. On a table in the background lie a hat, ink stand and specimens of Toft's rabbits; the walls are hung with five paintings and a large map of Surrey."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image, between two columns of verse., Artist and printmaker from later state: Geo. Vertue del. Jas. Vertue sculp., Date based on advertisement in the Daily journal, 23 December 1726., "Pr. 6d."--Price following imprint., Two columns of verse on either side of title: The Surrey Rabbet-Breeder here behold, Imposture greater than appear'd of old, ... Tis hop'd will bring forth pillory and ears., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., On page 42 in volume 1., and Ms. note in Steevens's hand above: The plate is said to have given offence to Frederick Prince of Wales who is here represented. His note below the print: Vertue was employed as the engraver.
Publisher:
Sold by Jon. Clark, engraver & printsellr. in Grays-Inn
Title etched above image., Place of publication supplied by curator., Date from copy in British Museum., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Toft, Mary, 1703-1763. and St. André, Nathanael, 1680-1776.
Subject (Topic):
Hoaxes, Obstetrics, Prenatal influences, Births, Pregnancy, Rabbits, and Physicians
Plate lettered on left side 'D': Reverse copies of details from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism: a medley". Mary Toft (right) on the ground in a faint. From under her skirt a line of rabbits emerge; 2. "Boy of Bilston", a shoeblack for spews hobnails and iron staples. In the basket at his back a volume labeled "Whitfield journal" in side rests on a volume with 'Demonology' written on its spine
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Printmaker and date from other prints in this series in the British Museum online catalogue., Plate from: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Toft, Mary, 1703-1763.
