Credulity, superstition and fanaticism [graphic] : a medley / designed by Wm. Hogarth ; engraved by T. Cook.

Creator:

Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London] :
Published by G.G. & J. Robinsons Pater-noster Row,
October 1st, 1798.

Physical Description:

1 print : engraving on wove paper ; plate mark 446 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 51.2 x 41.3 cm.

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Notes:

Title engraved below image.
Quote below title: "Believe not every Spirit; but try the Spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the World. 1. John. Ch. 4. V. 1".
Copy of: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2896.
Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 210.2.

Abstract:

"The interior of a chapel with an impassioned preacher inspiring his listeners; considerably altered from the earlier state known as "Enthusiasm Delineated", for instance, by the substitution of representations of the Cock Lane Ghost (a topical reference to a fraud of 1762) for the figures of Christ, the removal of the barking dog, and the introduction of rabbits emerging from the skirts of the woman swooning on the floor in allusion to Mary Toft, the Rabbit Woman of Godlaming."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Christianity.
Demonology.
Demons.
Ghosts.
Rabbits.
Sleeping.
Superstition.
Supervisors.
Witches.

Topics:

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Toft, Mary,--1703-1763--Caricatures and cartoons.
Villiers, George,--1690-1748.
Whitefield, George,--1714-1770--Caricatures and cartoons.

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings--England--London--1798.
Etchings--England--London--1798.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1798.

Format:

Image

Rights:

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Call Number:

Hogarth
798.10.01.06.1++
Hogarth 798.10.01.06.1++ Box 310

Orbis Record:

11641830

Yale Collection:

LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr29948

OID:

11046959

PID:

digcoll:553828