Print shows a woman standing in a sordid room. She is naked except for her shoes and ragged stockings, and is washing a garment, her 'last shift', in a broken chamber-pot supported on a broken chair. Another garment is in a broken basin on the floor; her hat and outer-garments also lie on the floor. Beside them are two pill-boxes and a paper inscribed "Leakes famous Pills". Her hair is elaborately dressed in a pyramid, decorated with feathers, flowers, and ribbons. A casement window is open, showing the roof of a neighbouring house; on the sill a cat yowls. A broadside ballad is pinned to the window recess: "The comforts of Single Life. An Old Song," and on the wall is a torn print, "Ariadne Forsaken".