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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

How happy am I in a married life ... [print].

Accession number
PML 145850.160
Published
[London?] : P. Van Somer excud., [ca. 1690]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Print publisher Paul Van Somer II was active in London from ca. 1688 to 1694.
Six lines of caption verse, continuing: ... Thanks to those gallants that do Love my wife! / To nurse these Children I do take great paines, / They have the pleasureBut I keepe the gaines / Therefore to were [sic] the Horns lett none Refuse / Cuckolds are Christians or our forefathers Jews.
Mounted as item 160 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 closely trimmed.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 150 x 130 mm; sheet: 184 x 138 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a cuckold with horns, carrying a cradle and laden with a basket full of children, with two older children standing at his side.
Classification
Department