Accession number
PML 145850.89
Published
[England : s.n., 16--]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Engraved caption text in two columns at foot; text continues: [left] ... Look on this bundle of smart Rods, / Down with your Breeches, Buttocks bare, / You shall be whipt by all the Gods, / [right] I beg your pardon, my Sweet Wife, / I wil hereafter clean your Room, / The faults not in me by my life, / But in my old and stubbed Broom.
Mounted as item 89 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).
Library's copy has been cropped at head, with loss to image and possible loss of text.
Engraved caption text in two columns at foot; text continues: [left] ... Look on this bundle of smart Rods, / Down with your Breeches, Buttocks bare, / You shall be whipt by all the Gods, / [right] I beg your pardon, my Sweet Wife, / I wil hereafter clean your Room, / The faults not in me by my life, / But in my old and stubbed Broom.
Mounted as item 89 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).
Library's copy has been cropped at head, with loss to image and possible loss of text.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 216 x 185 mm; sheet: 241 x 191 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an interior with a woman seated in a chair at left, holding out a switch in her left hand; her husband kneels before her at right, a broom under his arm and his hands raised in a pleading gesture. On the floor in the foreground lies a broken pipe and a print showing a comic male and female figure adorns the the wall behind the man and woman.
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