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1.
The Surrey-Wonder an anatomical-farce as it was dissected at [the] Theatre-Royal, Lincolns-Inn

Creator:
Vertue, James, 1725-1776, printmaker
Published / Created:
[December 1726]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"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
Subject (Name):
Toft, Mary, 1703-1763.
Subject (Topic):
Births, Deception, Physicians, and Rabbits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Surrey-Wonder an anatomical-farce as it was dissected at [the] Theatre-Royal, Lincolns-Inn-Fields. [graphic]

2.
[The quack] Populus vult decipi ... / [graphic]

Creator:
Velde, Jan van de, 1593-1641, printmaker
Published / Created:
[after 1618]
Call Number:
Print00719
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from publisher's place of residence., Title in Latin and Dutch., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
CI Visscher [monogram] excu
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Medicine shows, Patent medicines, Spectators, and Deception
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [The quack] Populus vult decipi ... / [graphic]

3.
[Groups from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism". D] [graphic].

Creator:
Riepenhausen, Ernst Ludwig, 1765-1840
Published / Created:
[not before 1787]
Call Number:
Hogarth 787.00.00.45 Box 115
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
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.
Subject (Topic):
Deception and Rabbits
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Groups from Hogarth's "Credulity, superstition and fanaticism". D] [graphic].

4.
Deceit [graphic].

Published / Created:
[4 June 1810]
Call Number:
810.06.04.25
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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 pitcher in his hands
Description:
Title from item., Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier., Plate numbered '23' published as part of a 1810 edition of Bobbin's Human passions delineated, with an engraved dedication page, a portrait of the artist, and at least 25 individual prints depicting human passions., and Variant issue, with plate number. Cf. No. 11670 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8.
Publisher:
Pub. June 4, 1810, by Edwd. Orme, London
Subject (Topic):
Deception and Eating & drinking
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Deceit [graphic].

5.
The politick lovers, or The Windsor miser outwitted

Published / Created:
[1799?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Windsor miser outwitted
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse in three parts: "Of all the merry frolicks"., In five columns with the title above the first two; one woodcut is above the first column depicting a man and the second depicting a demon is above the fourth column; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 17. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Printed by M. Bowley, No. 96 Aldersgate Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Broadsides, Ballads, English, Fathers and daughters, Parent and child, Courtship, Lifestyle, Deception, Man-woman relationships, Clergy, Love, and Demons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The politick lovers, or The Windsor miser outwitted

6.
The politick lovers, or, The Windsor miser outwitted

Published / Created:
[between 1757 and 1784?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Windsor miser outwitted
Description:
Verse in three parts begins: "Of all the merry folicks"., In five columns; the title spans the first two columns; the imprint spans the foot of the third through fifth columns; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Dated from the address; see David Atkinson, "Street literature printing in Stonecutter Street (1740s-1780s)", Publishing history 78 (2018), 1-45., Mounted on leaf 66. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at Sympson's Warehouse, in Stonecutter Street, Fleet-Market
Subject (Topic):
Courtship, Deception, and Man-woman relationships
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The politick lovers, or, The Windsor miser outwitted

7.
The politick maid of suffolk, or, The lawyer outwitted

Published / Created:
[between 1783 and 1796?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Lawyer outwitted
Description:
Verse begins: "Come all ye young men and maids,"., In four columns, with the title and woodcut above the first two; the imprint at foot of the last column below a single rule; the columns are not separated by rules., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 18. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Publisher:
Sold at No. 42, Long-Lane
Subject (Topic):
Man-woman relationships, Devil, Costumes, Chimney sweeps, Surprise, Deception, and Horns (Anatomy)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The politick maid of suffolk, or, The lawyer outwitted

8.
The rakish husband's garland

Published / Created:
[1765?]
Call Number:
Folio 74 OL1 v. 3
Image Count:
1
Description:
Date of publication from ESTC., Verse begins: "You gallant beaus of pleasure,"., In five columns with the title above the first three and the imprint below the first three; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Mounted on leaf 73. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 3.
Publisher:
Printed and sold at Sympson's warehouse, in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet Market
Subject (Topic):
Husband and wife, Man-woman relationships, Money, Prostitution, Adultery, Wealth, and Deception
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The rakish husband's garland