<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>Le baptême domestique [graphic].</dc:title><dc:date>[not before 1736]</dc:date><dc:language>fre</dc:language><dc:description>Copy in reverse of William Hogarth's "Woman swearing a child to a grave citizen. A pregnant young woman standing to left, swearing on a book before a magistrate who sits at a bench to right, that the child is by an old man wearing a dark wig with a ruff hanging at his waist, while he raises his hands and eyes to heaven, protesting innocence, his wife, wearing a coif and bonnet shakes her fist, upbraiding him, and the true father, a young man, crouches behind the woman, whispering counsel; beside the magistrate to right, a little girl sits teaching a dog to walk on its hind legs</dc:description><dc:description>Title engraved below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed with loss of companion prints: Le serment de la fille qui se trouve enceinte and Convoi funèbre des Anglois.</dc:description><dc:description>A reverse copy after J.V. Schley's print made for: Picart, B. Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde. Amsterdam : Chez J. F. Bernard, 1723, between pages 90 and 91?</dc:description><dc:description>See reference to Schely print in: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (1st ed.), p. 309.</dc:description><dc:description>After William Hogarth.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed to plate mark.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>