Accession number
PML 9313.3
Creator
Maddox, T., engraver.
Published
[London? : s.n., 1819?]
Credit line
Purchased in the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Caption title.
Print by T. Maddox after the portrait of Mary Toft painted in 1726 by John Laguerre; plate published as an illustration in, and possibly removed from, a copy of James Caulfield's Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons. London : H.R. Young, 1819, v. 2, p. 197 (facing).
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.
Print by T. Maddox after the portrait of Mary Toft painted in 1726 by John Laguerre; plate published as an illustration in, and possibly removed from, a copy of James Caulfield's Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons. London : H.R. Young, 1819, v. 2, p. 197 (facing).
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.
Description
1 print : crayon manner engraving ; image: 137 x 91 mm; sheet: 153 x 95 mm
Provenance
From the libraries of George Nassau (sale 16 Feb. 1824); and Thomas Jolley (sale 15 June 1852).
Summary
Print after Laguerre's portrait of Mary Toft, 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.
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