A Medical Inspection or Miracles Will Never Cease

Thomas Rowlandson British
 Publisher Thomas Tegg British
 Subject Joanna Southcott British

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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."

A Medical Inspection or Miracles Will Never Cease, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching

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