Accession number
PML 145850.108
Published
[England? : s.n., between 1680 and 1720?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Woodcut possibly removed from an English broadside of the late 17th or early 18th century.
Mounted as item 108 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).
Woodcut possibly removed from an English broadside of the late 17th or early 18th century.
Mounted as item 108 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 : woodcut ; image: 138 x 211 mm; sheet: 161 x 219 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print in two horizontal panels shows (top) three horned cuckolds at left, armed with a pick and two spades, busily digging "gravel at Horn Fair" as their wives stand at right, arm in arm with their lovers, and look on; (bottom) a cuckold at home, sitting beside the fireplace at left with a baby in his lap, as his wife dallies in bed with another man at far right.
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