The Surrey-Wonder [graphic] : an anatomical-farce as it was dissected at [the] Theatre-Royal, Lincolns-Inn-Fields.
- Creator:
- Vertue, James, 1725-1776, printmaker.
- Edition:
- [State before key letters and violin added].
- Published/Created:
- [London] :
Sold by Jon. Clark, engraver & printsellr. in Grays-Inn,
[December 1726] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching ; sheet 19.6 x 20.7 cm
- Notes:
- Title etched below image, between two columns of verse.
Artist and printmaker from later state: Geo. Vertue del. Jas. Vertue sculp.
Date based on advertisement in the Daily journal, 23 December 1726.
"Pr. 6d."--Price following imprint.
Two columns of verse on either side of title: The Surrey Rabbet-Breeder here behold, Imposture greater than appear'd of old, ... Tis hop'd will bring forth pillory and ears.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
CtY-LW - Abstract:
- "Satire on Mary Toft, the "rabbit breeder" and those who were duped by her fraud. The interior of a large room, presumably intended as Lacy's bagnio in Leicester Fields, in the centre of which Toft reclines on a chair attended by a doctor, John Howard, while a gentleman identified by Stephens as Nathaniel St AndreĢ, wearing a hat, has laid down a walking stick and kneels to lift a rabbit that is emerging from below her skirts. On the left, three men enter through an open door, the foremost, evidently John Maubray, holding up a specimen bottle and grasping by the shoulder another doctor, who points towards Toft; another holding a staff aplpears to be a constable. Other men (one perhaps intended as her husband) gather behind Toft's chair; Samuel Molyneux, wearing a hat and holding a walking stick turns away in disgust as a midwife holds up a "new-born" rabbit. On a table in the background lie a hat, ink stand and specimens of Toft's rabbits; the walls are hung with five paintings and a large map of Surrey."--British Museum online catalogue.
- Topics:
- Births.
Deception.
Physicians.
Rabbits. - Topics:
- Clark, John, 1683-1736, publisher.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership.
Toft, Mary,--1703-1763.
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.--CtY-LW
Etchings--England--London--1726.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1726. - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- 75
H67
800 v.1
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize) - Orbis Record:
- 12678356
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr26096l
- Citation:
- Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no.
- OID:
- 16193856
- PID:
- digcoll:4048271
