Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from five months to nine months gestation. Colour engraving, by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.

The martyrdoms of the Bishops Ridley and Latimer: both men are stripped to the waist, tied together to a stake and burnt alive. Etching by Taylor after D. Dodd.

The martyrdom of two sisters of Simeon, Bishop of Salencia: Two women, stripped to the waist are shackled to wooden boards and sawn in quarters in a marketplace. Etching after D. Dodd.

The martyrdom of seventy Protestants in Rome: a man kneels outside a prison, having the executioner covering his eyes with his hands and is about to have his throat cut while monks avert their eyes in horror. Etching after D. Dodd.

Martyrdom of a French bookseller in Avignon: tied to the stake with books bound around his neck a man raises his hands toward heaven while a priest attends to him and a man stokes the fire of the pyre. Etching after D. Dodd, 1765.

A man hypnotising a woman using the animal magnetism method. Engraving, 1802, after D. Dodd.

The martyrdom of two young ladies, Flora and Mary at the hands of the Saracens in Cordoba: one of the ladies is kneeling down, blindfolded, waiting for the executioner to behead her with his scimitar, while the other lady is looking on, restrained by a servant. Etching after D. Dodd.

The martyrdom of Cypriania Bustia: Cypriania lies emaciated and dead in a marketplace, his stomach being devoured by hungry dogs. Etching after D. Dodd.

The martyrdom of the French Protestant merchant John Calas: tied to a wheel with his arms and legs spread he is beaten to death in the presence of a priest and with a crowd looking on. Etching after D. Dodd.

The St Bartholomew's Eve Massacre: men, women and children are thrown out of windows or slaughtered with swords and pikes on the streets of Paris in 1572. Engraving after D. Dodd, 1765.

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Ebenezer Sibly. Stipple engraving by J. Pass, 1794, after D. Dodd.

<p>"This first visible state of conception, which resembles the lucid appearance of a drop of water, tending to coagulation, is correcly shewn in the first figure of the annexed plate, precisely in the state it was extracted from the uterus of a female, who died on the sixth day after contact with the male, and is now to be seen, preserved in spirits, in Rackstrow's valuable Museum, in Fleet-street, London."--Sibly, op. cit., p. 56</p>

1 print : engraving, printed in sanguine ; platemark 18.7 x 12.6 cm

Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from embryo at conception, to foetus of four months gestation. Colour engraving by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.

1 print : line engraving with etching ; platemark 22.3 x 18.1 cm

<p>Sibly describes the action of quickening as an event that occurs in the fifth month of pregnancy.  It is an "instantaneous, yet undescribable motion of the vital principle, which, the instant the foetus has acquired a sufficient degree of animal heat, and is completely formed in all its parts, rushes like an electric shock, or flash of lightning, conducted by the fanguiferous and nervous fluids, from the heart and brain of the mother, to the heart and brain of the child. At this moment the entire circulation begins; the infant fabric is com pletely set in motion; and the child becomes a living soul. As soon, therefore, as the circulation commences, the child starts into life; and the instant the circulation ceases, life ceases also. This act of quickening is therefore derived from the blood, and is so sensibly felt by the mother, that she often faints, and feels an internal depression of her animal and vital powers, which may be said, in some measure, to have departed from her. ... I have, to the best of my ability, endeavoured to illustrate this occult process of nature, by means of the annexed copper-plate engraving, taken from a drawing of the viscera and womb of an unfortunate female, who fainted and died at the time of quickening; the foetus itself being now preserved in spirits."--Sibly, op. cit., pp. 116-118</p>

1 print : engraving, printed in sanguine ; platemark 18.9 x 12.5 cm

Dissection of the torso of a pregnant woman, showing the internal organs and the foetus. Colour engraving by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.

1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 16.7 x 10.7 cm

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Ebenezer Sibly. Stipple engraving by J. Pass, 1794, after D. Dodd.

Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from embryo at conception, to foetus of four months gestation. Colour engraving by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.

A man hypnotising a woman using the animal magnetism method. Engraving, 1802, after D. Dodd.

Dissection of the torso of a pregnant woman, showing the internal organs and the foetus. Colour engraving by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.

Martyrdom of a French bookseller in Avignon: tied to the stake with books bound around his neck a man raises his hands toward heaven while a priest attends to him and a man stokes the fire of the pyre. Etching after D. Dodd, 1765.

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Ebenezer Sibly. Stipple engraving by J. Pass, 1794, after D. Dodd.

Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from embryo at conception, to foetus of four months gestation. Colour engraving by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.

A man hypnotising a woman using the animal magnetism method. Engraving, 1802, after D. Dodd.

Dissection of the torso of a pregnant woman, showing the internal organs and the foetus. Colour engraving by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.

Martyrdom of a French bookseller in Avignon: tied to the stake with books bound around his neck a man raises his hands toward heaven while a priest attends to him and a man stokes the fire of the pyre. Etching after D. Dodd, 1765.

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