A "man-midwife" (male obstetrician) represented by a figure divided in half, one half representing a man and the other a woman. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1793.

London (3 Piccadilly) : S W Fores, 15 June 1793.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 25.7 x 20.5 cm

A man-mid-wife, or a newly discovered animal, not known in Buffon's time; ... Lettering continues: "for a more full description of this monster, see, an ingenious book, lately publish'd, price 3/6, entitled, Man-midwifery dessected, containing a variety of well authenticated cases, elucidating this animal's propensities to cruelty & indecency, sold by the publisher of this print, who has presented the author with the above for a frontispiece to his book."

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. VII, London 1942, no. 8376

H. Speert, Iconographia gyniatrica - a pictorial history of gynecology and obstetrics, Philadelphia 1973, Ch. 3, p. 71

Wellcome Collection 16968i