print;
broadside;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1849,0315.96
- Title
- Object: Mother Damnable
- Description
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Broadside satirising a shrewish woman in Kentish Town; with an engraving showing a woman in rags sitting in front of a fire place, holding a crutch over it, on the ground next to her a pitcher and leaves, in the top right corner a sign with two cats hanging up-side down; with letterpress title and verses in two columns referring to Mother Louse and Mother Shipton. (London: 1676)
Late 17th-century watermark close to Heawood 436
- Production date
- 1676
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres (engraving)
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Height: 324 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 197 millimetres (engraving)
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Width: 206 millimetres (printed area)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Nicholas Stogdon has found the entry for the original publication of this print in the Stationers Register on 20th November 1676:
'[to] Master William Godbid. Entred ... under the hands of Master Roger L'Estrange and Master Warden Mearne, a copper plate of Mother Damnables picture with some verses underneath [no sum stated].
This impression, apparently the only one known, fetched the high price of £5.7s.6d. at the Stowe sale; it came from Vol.IV of the Duke of Buckingham's extra-illustrated Granger.
For copies after this print see J,3.311, 1927,1126.10 and 11
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1849
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1849,0315.96
