File:Cunicularii or The Wise men of Godliman in Consultation (BM 1868,0808.3517 1).jpg
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Cunicularii or The Wise men of Godliman in Consultation ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cunicularii or The Wise men of Godliman in Consultation |
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English: A sparse interior where (F) Mary Toft lies on a curtained bed apparently in the throes of labour. She is attended by (E) her husband Joshua Toft and (G) his sister Margaret, acting as nurse. (D) Dr John Howard is receiving a dead rabbit from a butcher at the door. There are three other men in the room: (A) Nathaniel St André, (C) John Maubray or Cyriacus Ahlers, and (B) a third (Sir John Manningham or Samuel Molyneux) whose arm is thrust beneath Mary's skirts. Rabbits scamper across the floor; others lie dead; to the right is a chamber pot. 1726
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Depicted people | Representation of: Mary Toft | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1726 date QS:P571,+1726-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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1868,0808.3517 |
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Notes |
According to Hawkins's inscription (B), the doctor delivering the rabbits, is the eminent man-midwife Sir Richard Manningham who, having visited Guildford on behalf of George I with his colleague Philip van Limborch, was responsible for bringing Mary Toft to London on 29 November and lodging her at Lacy's bagnio in Leicester Fields. However Dennis Todd ('Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England', Chicago, 1995, pp.92-94) makes a case for identifying him as Samuel Molyneux, astronomer and secretary to the Prince of Wales; this is supported by the description in Hogarth's key of 'An Occult Philosopher searching into the Depth of things'. Hawkins identified (C) as John Maubray whose recent book on the birth of small furry creatures known as 'sooterkins' to mothers in the Netherlands gave some medical credence to Mary Toft's story. An impression of the print in the Royal Collection identifies (C) as Cyriacus Ahlers, surgeon to his majesty's German household, who had been sent to Guildford by the king to investigate Mary Toft and returned reporting suspicions that the "rabbit births" were fradulent; he published "Some Observations Concerning the Woman of Godlyman" on 8 December. According to Hogarth's early biographer John Nichols, the print was commissioned by a group of rival surgeons paying a guinea each. Hogarth was to revive memories of Mary Toft more than thirty years later when he introduced her, with small rabbits running out from under her skirts, as an illustration of credulity in his print 'Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism', published in 1762. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3517 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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