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
"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.
