Image: Contemporary wife selling print georgian scrapbook 1949

Description: A satirical engraving of the quaint English custom of "wife-selling", which wasn't quite what it sounds like, but was more a ritual among the lower classes — who couldn't possibly obtain an official full parliamentary divorce, allowing remarriage, given the laws of England as they existed before 1857 — to publicly proclaim a dissolution of marriage (though not one that was really recognized by the authorities of Church and State). This is an 1820 English caricature (even though the sign says "Marché de Bêtes à Cornes"). Notice how the artist has arranged things so that the cattle's horns are strategically placed in line-of-sight behind the husband's head.
Title: Contemporary wife selling print georgian scrapbook 1949
Credit: Vaessen, Rachel Anne (Autumn 2006date QS:P,+2006-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40720568). "Humour, Halters and Humilitation: Wife-sale as Theatre and Self-divorce" (PDF). Master of Arts thesis: p. 35. Simon Fraser University. Retrieved on 2009-12-19. "The following early nineteenth century caricature ridiculing a wife-selling husband (Figure 2)...", taken from A.H. Phillips Georgian Scrapbook (1949) - page 123
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