A couple sit in two chairs, the man with his back to his wife is asleep with his hands resting on his large belly. The woman thin and with a forelorn look on her face sits in a large comfortable chair, looking out, her book at her side and a handkerchief in her hand
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
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."
Alternative Title:
Scripture fulfilled
Description:
Title from item., Signed in lower left of image IM, i.e. John Hamilton Mortimer?, and Date conjectured by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Cuckolds, Couples, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
A couple, the lady seated with her back to her husband, turns with knit-brow to look over her shoulder at her husband who looks at her with anger or disgust and distain
Description:
Title written in pencil beneath image., Signed by the artist in lower right., Date from: Padbury, D. View of Dightons., Numbered "407" in ink in lower left., and For a related mezzotint, published by Bowles & Carver, see no. 8921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7.
