<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Skimmington triumph [graphic].</dc:title><dc:date>[1740?]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"Satire on marriage, illustrating a riotous scene in a country village where a shrewish wife and hen-pecked husband are mocked by their neighbours in procession. The couple ride on one horse, the man facing the tail, preceded by another man on horseback who throws grain from a pannier to the crowd. Further to the right, cuckold's horns in the form of a stag's head, a ram's head and a cow's head are held aloft, the latter attached to a woman's shift, and "rough music" is played on pots and pans. In the background, is a river and a similar procession takes place on the far bank.."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state</dc:description><dc:description>Title from text above image.</dc:description><dc:description>Undated later state, by a different publisher; see No.1703 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2.</dc:description><dc:description>Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Four columns of verse below image: First pans and kettles of all keys, from trebles, down to double bass ...</dc:description><dc:description>Temporary local subject terms: Fairs: "Horn Fair", Charlton, Kent -- Banners: Horns and women's undergarments used as banners on stick -- Kitchen utensils: pots as noisemakers -- Ladles -- Horns: stag's head and antlers on stick -- Ram's horns on stick -- Cow's horns on stick -- Grain -- Distaffs -- Processions: Skimmington -- Buildings: cottages -- Rowboats -- Alehouses -- Signs with horns -- Tubs on poles -- Matrimony -- Countrymen -- Swans -- Shrews -- Literature: verse purported to be from Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>