Whipping John of Islington, British Cartoon Print

Print shows an interior view of a room in which a man holds a bare-bottomed woman with a pained look on her face on his back as another woman holds up the woman's dress and points to her naked backside; a man, Whipping John, prepares to apply a bundle of rushes, the lash, to her exposed posterior. In the background, peeping in at the door, stands another man deriving gratification from the scene.
Includes 10 lines of verse: How came this Flogging Whim into thy Skull, / Thou'rt sold to endless Shame and Laughter, Hull, / Each Lash that did the Wife's Posteriors wound, / ...
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).