TITLE: Whipping John of Islington CALL NUMBER: PC 3 - 1748 - Whipping John ... (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-132016 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: 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. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1748 July 11th. NOTES: 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). SUBJECTS: Whipping--England--1740-1750. Women--Punishment & torture--England--1740-1750. Relations between the sexes--England--1740-1750. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1740-1750.Etchings British 1740-1750. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c32016 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c32016 CONTROL #: 2002719529
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