Accession number
PML 9313.8
Creator
Kirkall, Elisha, 1682?-1742, engraver.
Published
[London?] : E. Kirkall, [ca. 1726?]
Credit line
Purchased in the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Mezzotint printed in red ink.
Library's copy forms part of a bound volume (PML 9313) of collected materials pertaining to the notorious case of "rabbit woman" Mary Toft of Godalming; the contents dated 1726-ca. 1819, and including: 11 printed tracts and specimens of satirical verse and prose, 8 prints, 1 pen and ink portrait of Mary Toft by G.P. Harding, and an original manuscript transcription of the "Predictions of William Whiston". All individual items forming the volume have been cataloged separately.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Mezzotint printed in red ink.
Library's copy forms part of a bound volume (PML 9313) of collected materials pertaining to the notorious case of "rabbit woman" Mary Toft of Godalming; the contents dated 1726-ca. 1819, and including: 11 printed tracts and specimens of satirical verse and prose, 8 prints, 1 pen and ink portrait of Mary Toft by G.P. Harding, and an original manuscript transcription of the "Predictions of William Whiston". All individual items forming the volume have been cataloged separately.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : mezzotint ; image: 173 x 142 mm; on sheet: 200 x 160 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
In margin above image, outside of platemark, a rebus composed of letters and figures drawn in blue ink: [mare] [eye] Tofts. M[press] of sm[awl] [rabbit]s.
Provenance
From the libraries of George Nassau (sale 16 Feb. 1824); and Thomas Jolley (sale 15 June 1852).
Summary
Print shows a girl, half-length, clad only in a sheet or drape wrapped around her torso, holding a rabbit to her chest.
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