Title from item., Artist and date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from street address., Above image: L'imagination. No. 7., Originally published in Le Charivari, 18 June 1833., 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: Alcohol.
Publisher:
L. de Bénard rue de l'Abbaye, No. 4 and On s'abonne chez Aubert galerie véro dodat
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
Portrait, three-quarter length, sitting facing front, right elbow resting on a table, left hand holding a rabbit in her lap, wearing plain clothes, an apron, knotted scarf around her neck and small white cap, looking away to left; after Laguerre
Alternative Title:
Mary Toft, of Godalming
Description:
Title engraved below image., After a painting by John Laguerre., and For an earlier mezzotint copy of the same portrait, see no. 1783 Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.
Publisher:
Published Jany. 1st, 1810, by Wm. Richardson Junr., 31 Strand
A peddler shown full-length walking left with two poles from which hang dead rabbits
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker and imprint from title page of work in which this print was published., Plate from: Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis / T.L.B. London : Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Reduced copy in reverse of no. 18 in M. Laroon's Cries of London.
"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
In the top image, four horsemen, one man on foot, and three hounds chase a fox across the fields. Clockwise, a small image shows an alerted fox lying on the ground, a decapitated fowl under his paw, accosted by two snarling dogs. Below is an image of a hound. At the bottom, an image of a man with a gun and two spaniels in pursuit of ducks converges with an image of a man and two hounds chasing a hare. Above it, a depiction of a hare is followed by that of a fox caught and attacked by a group of hounds
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '71' in the lower right corner., and Mounted to 50 x 40 cm.
Publisher:
Published 2 November 1801, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Hunting dogs, Foxes, Rabbits, Fox hunting, Rabbit hunting, and Game bird hunting
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
Print with twelve panels relating to the affair of Mary Toft, "the rabbit breeder": from top left, she is held aloft by two men and a Harlequin or Merry Andrew, she has a rabbit in either hand; she pursues a rabbit while working in a field; she dreams of being impregnated by rabbit, Cupid is shown on a cloud beside her bed holding a rabbit in either hand; she is seated in a chair attended by two women while the two men and Harlequin discuss the monstrous birth; Harlequin demonstrates that he can express milk from her breast; Harlequin feels "the rabbets leapin in her belly" while two men look on; she sits on the edge of a bed and Harlequin kneels to seize a rabbit that emerges from her skirts while a doctor raises his hands in surprise, wishing to anatomize the animal; Harlequin stands behind a table holding a balance in which he weighs dung removed from the rabbit explaining to two men that this will allow him to judge whether the animal had "breath'd in air"; doctors and midwives discuss the phenomenon around a table and Harlequin enters claiming that the birth must be "praeternatural"; a crowd of gentlemen are welcomed to the bagnio in Leicester Square where Toft is housed; two men spy from the door to Toft's room as another hands her a dead rabbit; Toft, weeping, is led away to Bridewell by two constables while Harlequin "sits upon Repenting stool, Cursing his fate in being made a Fool. See British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New whim wham from Guildford
Description:
Title etched above images. and Trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
Subject (Topic):
Christianity, Superstition, Demonology, Births, Brothels, Cupids, Fools & jesters, Fraud, Law enforcement, Physicians, Pregnant women, and Rabbits
Framed within the image of a rustic hut decorated with garlands and ivy, on the left, a man in an outdoor coat and hat walks in a rain storm; on the right a young woman dances in a pastoral landscape as the bright sun rises behind her. Beside her on the left, lambs nibble at the grass; a cottage can be seen in the background on her right. Below the image, the lines: Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought, devised the weather-house, that useful toy! Fearless of humid air and gathering rains, Forth steps the man, an emblem of myself, more delicate his tim'rous mate retires." Below the verse a round image of three rabbits identified as Puss, Tiney & Bess
Alternative Title:
Cowper's tame hares
Description:
Title from text in image., Etched plate on sheet with letterpress above and on verso., Plate from: Hayley, W. The life and posthumous writings of William Cowper, Esqr. Chichester : Printed by J. Seagrave, 1803, v. 2, page 415., and Watermark: J Whatman 1801.
Publisher:
Publish'd Nov. 5, 1802 by J. Johnson, St. Pauls Church Yard
