Accession number
PML 145850.218
Published
[England] : [s.n.], [168-?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Six lines of verse below central figure: In Eden's Garden did old Adam Name, / All sorts of Beasts that to him came, / But surely in that fair Garden's Shade, / Was there no such Creature (as this) made: / Then certainly, without mistaking, / Cuckolds are of Womens making.
Inserted as item 219 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).
Six lines of verse below central figure: In Eden's Garden did old Adam Name, / All sorts of Beasts that to him came, / But surely in that fair Garden's Shade, / Was there no such Creature (as this) made: / Then certainly, without mistaking, / Cuckolds are of Womens making.
Inserted as item 219 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: 165 x 295 mm; plate mark: 187 x 297 mm; sheet: 225 x 345 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Note in ink at foot: Made to reflect on K.J.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the figure of a periwigged man, possibly intended to represent James II, with horns on his head and words reading "A cuckold"; he is flanked by vertical rows of various horned ungulates, three on each side, labeled accordingly, (left) "An Antelope", "An Ox", "An Unicorn", (right) "A Ram", "A Goat", "A Stag".
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