The Methodist taylor caught in adultery [graphic] / Cabbage sculpt.

Published/Created:

London
Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, No. 53 in Fleet Street
publish'd as the act directs July 21, 1768

Physical Description:

1 print : engraving, on laid paper ; plate mark 25.3 x 36.7 cm., on sheet 29 x 48 cm.

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4248

Notes:

Title engraved below image.
Grosvenor Prints; July 2008; Acquisitions no.: 2008-7-18-37.

Abstract:

The thin, half-dressed man is scolded by his fat wife who has caught him in the garret bedroom with their young female servant. A bundle of his clothes in her arms, the servant scratches her head at the door. Pasted on the walls and ceilings of the room are several papers inscribed with dictums such as "Thou shalt not commit adultery", "God's warning for sinners", and "Once I lov'd." On the floor a book lies open to pages which read "Servants obey your Masters" and "Sermon to young women by Timy. Button Hole."

Associated Names:

Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794 [Publisher]

Topics:

Adultery
Attics
Bedrooms
Couples
Methodists -- England
Servants' quarters
Women domestics

Language:

English

Genre:

Engravings -- England -- London -- 1768
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1768

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

768.07.21.01+

Orbis Record:

8272587

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr19478

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

15510993

PID:

digcoll:2805979