TITLE: The harlots nurse, or modern procuress / Boitard sculpt. CALL NUMBER: PC 3 - 1750 - Harlots nurse, ... (A size) [P&P]PC 3 - 1750 - Harlots nurse, ... Another impression. Without printer statement. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-132015 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Print shows an interior view of a room in which a tightly corsetted lady admires herself in a mirror as her maid, or procuress, views her from behind. This scene is mirrored by a cat toying with a mouse under a table in the lower left corner, and, in the upper right corner, by an odalisque-like painting of a nude woman reclining on cushions, with one hand raised to catch coins spilling from a bag held by a procuress. Another picture, a half-length portrait of a bare-breasted woman holding a squirrel in her left hand, hangs on the wall in the background. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching and engraving. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [ca. 1750] CREATOR: Boitard, Louis-Philippe, fl. 1733-1770, engraver. NOTES: Printed for & sold by the Propriator John Ryall at Hogarth's Head in the Fleet Street, London. Includes 8 lines of verse: Behold the practis'd Baud explore, / The Nymph from head to foot all O'er, / For Cupers whom shes dress'd w'th Care, / (A bait to Catch some Money'd Heir) / ... Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). SUBJECTS: Prostitution--England--1740-1760. Women--England--1740-1760. Relations between the sexes--England--1740-1760. FORMAT: Cartoons (Commentary) British 1740-1760.Intaglio prints British 1740-1760. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c32015 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c32015 CONTROL #: 2002719530
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