Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism
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| Artist | William Hogarth |
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| Year | 1762 |
Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism is a 1762 satirical work by English artist William Hogarth. (published by William Heath in 1822) ridiculed secular and religious credulity. The scene depicts a church congregation with a preacher at the top of a pulpit holding a pair of puppets symbolizing the devil and a witch; below, Mary Toft is giving birth to rabbits. Also contributing to the imagery are a brain with a '"religious thermometer" in it, and a minister placing an icon of the Cock Lane ghost down the shirt of a young lady in the throes of religious ecstasy.
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