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Image of a cuckold (husband of an adulterous wife).
Taken from: Fumblers Hall. Kept and holden in Feeble-Court, at the sign of the Labour-in-vain, in Dee-little-Lane. Wherein divers Complaints & Agrievances, of the Feminines in Cornucopia, are presented to the grave wisdoms of the Masters of the Company: concerning Non-performance, want of due benevolence, Deficience and Corporal Disabilities in Man-kind, whereby poor distressed Females Languish under a pressing weight of misery, not only to the great decay of their Trade and occupations, but to the destruction of Generation it self. Whereunto is Added the Second part, newly discovered and set forth for information of delinquents that are to answer to these interrogations that shall be objected against them. London, no date (17thC).
Early modern European freakery, and sexual politics, lesbian history and pop culture. Or whatsoever else I fancy.
The title is taken from one of my favourite 17thC homoerotic poems, by Katherine Philips: 'To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship'.
