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The Doctors in Labour; or a New Whim Wham from Guildford   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Doctors in Labour; or a New Whim Wham from Guildford
Description
English: Twelve scenes relating to the affair of Mary Toft, "the rabbit breeder": from top left, she is held aloft by two men and a Harlequin or Merry Andrew, she has a rabbit in either hand; she pursues a rabbit while working in a field; she dreams of being impregnated by rabbit, Cupid is shown on a cloud beside her bed holding a rabbit in either hand; she is seated in a chair attended by two women while the two men and Harlequin discuss the monstrous birth; Harlequin demonstrates that he can express milk from her breast; Harlequin feels "the rabbets leapin in her belly" while two men look on; she sits on the edge of a bed and Harlequin kneels to seize a rabbit that emerges from her skirts while a doctor raises his hands in surprise, wishing to anatomize the animal; Harlequin stands behind a table holding a balance in which he weighs dung removed from the rabbit explaining to two men that this will allow him to judge whether the animal had "breath'd in air"; doctors and midwives discuss the phenomenon around a table and Harlequin enters claiming that the birth must be "praeternatural"; a crowd of gentlemen are welcomed to the bagnio in Leicester Square where Toft is housed; two men spy from the door to Toft's room as another hands her a dead rabbit; Toft, weeping, is led away to Bridewell by two constables while Harlequin "sits upon Repenting stool,/Cursing his fate in being made a Fool." 1726
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Depicted people Representation of: Mary Toft
Date 1726
date QS:P571,+1726-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 335 millimetres
Width: 263 millimetres (trimmed)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.3514
Notes Stephens assumes that Harlequin or Merry Andrew is intended for Nathaniel St André.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3514
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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