Print of the month
On this page, Dr Malcolm Jones (m.h.jones [at] shef.ac.uk) of the University of Sheffield presents surprising and unusual printed images from early modern England—from the polemical to the pornographic. The commentaries derive from Dr Jones’ longstanding researches into the early modern English print, to be published in his book, The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight, forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2010.
The prints that have appeared are as follows:
- All Doe Ride the Asse: October 2006
- Cats Castle Besieged and Stormed by the Rats: August 2007
- Committee; or Popery in Masquerade: April 2008
- Common Weales Canker Wormes: October/November 2008
- Cully Flaug’d: December 2007
- Doctor Panurgus: November 2006
- Embleme of Englands Distractions: August 2006
- England's Miraculous Preservation Emblematically Described: December 2008
- Funeral Obsequies of Sir All-in-New-Fashions: September 2007
- Hunting after Money: November 2007
- Infallible Mountebank, or Quack Doctor: September 2008
- Jesuit Displaid: April 2007
- Lawyer settles a dispute over an oyster: March 2008
- Mappe of the Man of Sin: August 2008
- 'May' from the Months: May 2008
- New Yeares Guift for Shrews: September 2006
- Pedlar Robbed by Apes: January/February 2009
- Powder Treason: October 2007
- Revells of Christendome: January/February 2008
- Submarine: April 2009
- Sucklington Faction: June/July 2008
- Syons Calamity or Englands Miserye Hieroglyphically Delineated: January 2007
- This Ages Rarity, or the Emblem of a Good Servant Explained: March 2007
- This Costly Fish Catcht: February 2007
- Tittle-Tattle: or the Several Branches of Gossipping: December 2006
- Tree of Man’s Life: May 2007
- Winchester Wedding: June/July 2007
- Woman and the Men of the Four Elements: March 2009
- Yale Center ‘Panorama’: May/June 2009