Accession number
PML 9313.6
Published
[London] : Sold by J. Clark, engraver and printseller in Gray's Inn, [1726]
Credit line
Purchased in the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Title from caption below the image, engraved on a separate plate (plate mark 3.9 x 22.8 cm.) and impressed below the image. Title preceded by the number "1."
"Pr. 1 shil."
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 closely trimmed and folded.
"Pr. 1 shil."
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 closely trimmed and folded.
Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark: 153 x 225 mm; sheet: 202 x 230 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
In ink at bottom left: Hogarth sculp.
Provenance
From the libraries of George Nassau (sale 16 Feb. 1824); and Thomas Jolley (sale 15 June 1852).
Summary
Print shows an interior with (1) "Mr Petit a French Surgeon sent from Paris to Doctor Meagre to take an exact Account from him of ye Praeternatural Delivery of Rabbets" (a reference to Mary Toft's fraud) entering through a door on the right and bowing elegantly as he presents a letter to (2) "Doctor Meagre" a tall thin man supporting himself on a stick. (3) A young boy, the doctor's son Edmund, stands behind holding the hand of (4) "Mr Dipthong" his tutor. To the left is (5) a table, on which rest a flask and glass and a dish of pill; two large barrels beneath are labelled, "Gallenus" and "Hipocrates". On the wall behind are two pictures, on the right, (6) showing a duel between "the Doctor & a Flower Painter at Slaughter's Coffee house", and, on the left, (7) "Another Incounter at Swords between the Doctor & a famous French Gramarian, a long Table standing between the Champions". A young black servant opens the door, on which is written "No Cure, No Mony". Lettered below the image with a key, from which quotations in the description are taken.
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