Sarah M. S. Pearsall

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Sarah M. S. Pearsall | "The late flagrant instance of depravity in my Family": The Story of an Anglo-Jamaican Cuckold | The William and Mary Quarterly, 60.3 | The History Cooperative

"The late flagrant instance of depravity in my Family": The Story of an Anglo-Jamaican Cuckold

MANY discoveries have been made ... in consequence of a peep through a key-hole," clucked Town and Country Magazine in 1785).¹ Aware of the perils of the keyhole, the cautious Jolly Buck Parson used one hand to block it while approaching the Hibernian Matron with a condom in the other (see Figure I). In the "Crim. Con. scene," the keyhole may have given the outraged husband a first glance of his wife in the carnal embrace of another man (see Figure II).² In Thomas Rowlandson's biting "The Old Husband," not a keyhole but an open door allows the viewer to witness the explicitly portrayed adultery going on literally behind the back of the gout-ridden old husband, who snoozes by the fire with his cat and his bottle of port (see Figure III).

Figure I
"The Jolly Buck Parson and the Hibernian Matron," from The Bon Ton Magazine, No. 31 (Sept. 1793). Photograph by permission of the British Library, Cup.820.c.14.

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