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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827
St. James's ; St. Giles's / H. Wigstead invt.
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plate mark: 273 x 197 mm; sheet: 279 x 178 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1712
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[London] : Publish'd by T. Rowlandson, Strand, Jany. 1792.
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes:
Printmaker from BM Satires.
First issue; later reissued in 1794 by S.W. Fores, with his name added to the imprint and the "2" altered to read "4" in the original publication year.
Summary:
Two designs on one sheet; above are two fashionably dressed courtesans (three-quarter length) seated facing each other; one (right) holds a punch-bowl, the other, who looks at the spectator with a leer, holds a glass. Below, two burly women, prostitutes of the lowest type, stand together, full face, one (left) with her arm across the shoulders of the other.
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