"A black saleman selling rabbits kneels on the pavement with his basket, looking up at a young woman who stands at the door of a house; she holds up one of the rabbits by a hind-leg. A manservant holding a dish stands behind her, grinning. Behind is the corner of a street."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printmaker identified based on original drawing in the Huntington Library collection., Two lines of text below title: 'Miss - O la how it smells - sure its not fresh, Mungo - Be gar Misse dot no fair - If Blacke Man take you by Leg so - ; you smell too.', From Drolls., and Watermark (partial): Strasburg bend.
Publisher:
Publish'd Octr. 8th 1792 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Black people, City & town life, Rabbits, Servants, Street vendors, and Women
Title from British Museum catalogue., Publication date from an unverified card catalog record, based on an advertisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766., Original etched by W.H. Toms., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Behold how in the colledge [sic] hall, the surgeons and the doctors all, are met in consultation wise, a carcase [sic] to anatomize ..., Slightly reduced copy in reverse, without attribution, and with different verses, of No. 1861 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., and Temporary local subject terms: Quacks -- Dissections -- Containers: tubs -- Furniture: butcher's block -- Carcasses: pig -- Carcasses: cat -- Hares.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bats, Cats, Crocodiles, Dead animals, Donkeys, Fish, Frogs, Monkeys, Rabbits, Skeletons, Skulls, and Swine
Title from ms. annotation at top of sheet., Nine designs on one plate, each individually titled., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of imprint and partial loss of printmaker's signature., and Designs on sheet separated by lines drawn in ink in later hand.
Title devised by cataloger., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Water wells -- Children at play -- Lawn rollers -- Cottages -- Boats -- Hounds., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. June 20, 1790, by S.W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Blacksmiths, Dueling, Dwellings, Occupations, Rabbits, and Sedan chairs
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.
Title and publisher supplied by curator/translator., Date derived from style, In lower margin: FPO-15-222., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Nutrition Education Committee, Ministry of Education and Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction
Subject (Topic):
Human nutrition, Food habits, Health education, Food, Fruit, Vegetables, and Rabbits
