"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...
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Title etched below image, between two columns of verse.
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Sold by Jon. Clark, engraver & printsellr. in Grays-Inn
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 f...
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Title devised by cataloger.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, and Toft, Mary, 1703-1763.
Two countrymen holding a pitcher gaze into it as one gestures in explanation, their smoking tobacco-pipes, cheese and knife, bread and a tankard on the table between them. On the left the tavern keeper turns away slyly as he walks away with another p...