Petticoat government, or, The Scripture fulfilled [graphic]

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Title: Petticoat government, or, The Scripture fulfilled [graphic]
Alternative Title: Scripture fulfilled
Contributor: Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779, artist.
Published / Created: [ca. 1778]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A fashionably dressed woman with elaborate coiffure decorated with ribbons and ostrich plumes, holds a whip in the left hand and reins in the right, as she rides on the back of a corpulent man with horns. He leans on his walking stick, the reins in his mouth, regarding the viewer with a doleful expression. Beneath the title, a quote from 1 Corinthians 7:4: "The husband hath not power over his own body - but the wife."
Description: Title from item.
Signed in lower left of image IM, i.e. John Hamilton Mortimer?
Date conjectured by cataloger.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss collection, v. 2.
Extent: 1 print : plate markl 24.8 x 16.1 cm, on sheet 26 x 17 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1778
Etchings England London 1778
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Marriage
Cuckolds
Couples
Hairstyles
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Marriage
Cuckolds
Couples
Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
England > 1778
England > London > 1778

Access: Public
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