Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A couple lie in bed, the husband has a whip and thumbscrews, around the floor lie sheets of paper which tell of the way a wife should behave. Coloured etching by Williams.
A couple lie in bed, the husband has a whip and thumbscrews, around the floor lie sheets of paper which tell of the way a wife should behave. Coloured etching by Williams.
Wellcome Collection

A couple lie in bed, the husband has a whip and thumbscrews, around the floor lie sheets of paper which tell of the way a wife should behave. Coloured etching by Williams.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Tameing a shrew or Petruchio's patent family bedstead, gags and thumbscrews.

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