Poor Man loaded with Mischief,Matrimony,Marriage,England,Intoxication,1752

Title: A poor man loaded with mischief, or matrimon[y] / drawn by Experience ; engrav'd by Sorrow.
Date Created/Published: London : Publish'd according to Act of Parliament by S. Lyne at the Globe in Newgate Street, 1752 October 1st.
Summary: 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.
Notes:
Title from item.
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).
Subjects:
Relations between the sexes--England--1750-1760.
Marriage--England--1750-1760.
Intoxication--1750-1760.
Distress--1750-1760.
Brothels--England--1750-1760.
Intaglio prints--1750-1760.
Satires (Visual works)--British--1750-1760.
Bookmark /2003675463/
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