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Ducking-stool for scolding women

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Title
Ducking-stool for scolding women
Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection

Punishments

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1869
Topics
Bodies of water
Punishment & torture
Damask weaving
Cucking stool
Genres
Prints
Notes
Content: Printed on border: "Among the instumentalities by which women in old times were taught the discipline of self-restraint, and gradually prepared for their impeding emancipation, was the ducking-stool, which was in vogue about a hundred years ago. When a woman gave the scolding rein to her tongue, so as to become a neighborhood nuisance, the town ducking-stool was wheeled up to her door, and left by way of admonition. If the warning proved insufficient, she was taken to the pond, tied in the chair, and ducked in the water -- the number sousings being roughly proportioned to the supposed desperateness of the case. The practice is reported to have been kept up till the present century; a woman in Liverpool having been dipped in this manner in 1803." "May 29, [1869]."
Source note: Art journal. Virtue Co., 1839-1912).
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b17696948
Barcode: 33333159444302
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): daac44e0-c561-012f-e915-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1869: Issued
  • 2014: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

The New York Public Library. "Ducking-stool for scolding women" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1869. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1c9d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Chicago/Turabian Format

The New York Public Library. "Ducking-stool for scolding women" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1c9d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

The New York Public Library. (1869). Ducking-stool for scolding women Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1c9d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Wikipedia Citation

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Ducking-stool for scolding women