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...
"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...
Description:
Title etched below image, between two columns of verse.
Publisher:
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.