Accession number
PML 145850.29
Published
[London ; Westminster] : Sold by the Printsellers of London & Westminster, [ca. 1721]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
According to announcements in contemporary newspapers, this print was originally published or distributed in 1721 by Thomas Bowles; another recorded impression, bearing the imprint "Printed for & Sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London", is in the holdings of the British Museum, and evidently dates from the period after 1766 when Carington Bowles took over the business in St Paul's Churchyard. Cf. Stephens and the British Museum online catalog.
Mounted as item 29 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Mounted as item 29 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 333 x 230 mm; plate mark: 350 x 247 mm; sheet: 457 x 288 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Satire on the power of women, with images of a mitre, crown and, far larger than either, a petticoat around which winged putti play, one raising the hem to look underneath. Above the petticoat hangs a banner lettered with nine lines of explanatory verse: In these Three tempting Gugaws do we See ... And to ye weaker Vessel gives Superiour Sway.
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