Whipping John of Islington,July 11,1748,England,Whipping,Women,Punishment

Title: Whipping John of Islington
Date Created/Published: 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, / ...
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.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1740-1750.
Etchings--British--1740-1750.
Bookmark /2002719529/
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