A poor man loaded with mischief, or matrimon[y] / drawn by Experience ; engrav'd by Sorrow., British Cartoon Print

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A poor man loaded with mischief, or matrimon[y] / drawn by Experience ; engrav'd by Sorrow., British Cartoon Print

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Zusammenfassung

Print shows a man chained to wedlock carrying a woman on his back, her breasts exposed, she holds a cup labeled "gin" and toasts "My Bucks Health", and according to a pig in a pen, "She is as Drunk as David's Sow"; a monkey sits on the woman's lap, removing the man's wig, and a magpie sits on the monkey's shoulders. In the background is a building (probably a brothel) with horns mounted above a sign showing two cats and labeled "the Cristian [sic] Mans Arms or the Cuckolds Fortune." Includes six lines of verse.

Paper watermarked with letters and medallion in middle of print at top and bottom.
Print trimmed within plate mark.
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

date_range

Datum

01/01/1752
place

Lage

Old England17.99358, -77.46606
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Quelle

Library of Congress
copyright

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relations between the sexes
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