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Petticoat government, or, The Scripture fulfilled
Title
Petticoat government, or, The Scripture fulfilled [graphic] / IM x.
Publication
[England] : [publisher not identified], [ca. 1778]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate markl 24.8 x 16.1 cm, on sheet 26 x 17 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title from item.
Signed in lower left of image IM, i.e. John Hamilton Mortimer?
Date conjectured by cataloger.
Summary
A fashionably dressed woman with elaborate coiffure decorated with ribbons and ostrich plumes, holds a whip in the left hand and reins in the right, as she rides on the back of a corpulent man with horns. He leans on his walking stick, the reins in his mouth, regarding the viewer with a doleful expression. Beneath the title, a quote from 1 Corinthians 7:4: "The husband hath not power over his own body - but the wife."
Variant and related titles
Scripture fulfilled
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 24, 2004
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1778.
Etchings - England - London - 1778.
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