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Image Title: Whipping John Of Islington, 1748

Date: 1748 July 11th.

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.

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, / ...

Subjects: Relations between the sexes--England--1740-1750
Whipping--England--1740-1750
Women--Punishment & torture--England--1740-1750

Original Media: Etching

Collections: Cartoon Prints, British » more info...

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