A Medical Inspection or Miracles Will Never Cease

Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Tegg|Joanna Southcott

September 15, 1814 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

Joanna Southcott, grossly caricatured and seen from the back, lifts her petticoats before three doctors who gaze at her. She says, "Seeing is believing are you Now satisfied theres no [sic] Behold the Naked Truth most Learned Doctors." The doctors respond, respectively, "It has a confounded strange appeara[nce]"; "I have my doubts"; and "I cant help suspecting."

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Tegg|Joanna Southcott

Date

September 15, 1814

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959