Hogarth's Stages of Cruelty and The Real Mr Frankenstein

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This website advertises a non-fiction investigative biography of Sir Anthony Carlisle. The research for the book has been a fascinating journey, now shared, involving a detective type, iconographic analysis, of 18C art and literature, coupled with detailed searches of 18C and early 19C medical literature, seeking original sources to confirm and support each discovery as it emerged.

The research has uncovered a stunning new view of medical history where truth is verily shown as stranger than fiction; as this ebook assembles together, and logically interprets, historical facts from the 18C and 19C.

Major Discoveries
The major discoveries, and many minor ones, are supported by detailed and contemporary, artistic and literary evidence. The major ones, in order of discovery, are:
- That Carlisle wrote the Gothic novels previously attributed to a Mrs Carver.
- That William Smellie MD and William Hunter MD, famous men-midwives and anatomists of the 18C, were responsible for many murders of pregnant women, in order to obtain subjects for depiction in their famous anatomical atlases.
- That Carlisle was the model for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Carlisle was a close friend of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and spent forty years trying to discover the secrets of muscular motion, i.e. to revive life.
- That William Hogarth's print The Reward of Cruelty depicts William Smellie in the process of being dissected by William Hunter and John Hunter. This being Hogarth's view of the appropriate punishment for Smellie's murders of pregnant women. Examples of the iconographic analysis are below.

In 1751 William Hogarth published a series of four prints titled "The Four Stages of Cruelty". The fourth print in the series depicts an anatomy theatre.

What has not been previously observed, is that the anatomist wielding a large knife is clearly Dr William Hunter the 18C accoucheur and anatomist, and the young assistant is his younger brother John Hunter, the famous 18C surgeon.

A comparison of the portrait of William Hunter on the cover of this book by Bynum and Porter, with the close up of the print, clearly shows the same prominent nose, chin, and cheekbones. In addition his spectacles match, in one he is wearing them and in one he is holding them.

John Hunter's portrait is not quite as obvious, but a similarity can be seen in this portrait of John Hunter by Robert Home.


The iconography of these portraits, and their connection with the history of men-midwifery and obstetrics, involving William Smellie and William Hunter, is explored more closely in a new biography of Sir Anthony Carlisle, available for purchase as a downloadable eBook version in PDF format containing over 300,000 words, 460 pages and 300 illustrations, at a modest price of £9.99 (GBP9.99). It is a non-fiction resource, meticulously researched, with over 1500 footnoted sources. To purchase a download via Paypal please click on the button.

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