Petticoat government, or, The Scripture fulfilled [graphic][ca. 1778]engA 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."Title from item.Signed in lower left of image IM, i.e. John Hamilton Mortimer?Date conjectured by cataloger.