Tameing a shrew, or, Petruchio's patent family bedstead gags & thumscrews / [graphic]Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker[not before October 1815]eng"A four-post bed with a tent-shaped canopy is made with hinged planks at head and foot, after the fashion of a pillory. In this lies a woman, her arms confined behind her head and her feet thrust through the holes at the foot. Her husband sits up in bed beside her, holding a whip. He looks down menacingly, holding up a metal gag. She looks up at him, helpless but grimly resentful. At the head of the bed hangs a placard: 'Love Honor and OBEY'; above the man hangs a watch, the hands indicating 2.50. A candle has burned to the socket on a table by the bed on which lies a paper:' By the Kings Patent Petruchios Family Bedstead for tameing a Shrew, also his patent gags and . . .' Thumbscrews lie on the paper. On the ground, with stays and slippers, are three open books: 'Nuptial Dialogues on Various Subjects'; 'Rule a Wife and Have a Wife' [Fletcher's comedy]; 'The Whole Duty of Woman' [torn]."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Later state; imprint has been completely burnished from plate.Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Octr. 1815 by Thos. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London. Cf. No. 12650 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.Plate numbered "224" in upper right corner.Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4.Also issued separately.Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge.