About this image...

Image Title: The Harlots Nurse, Or Modern Procuress, 1750

Creator: Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, engraver

Date: Ca. 1750

Summary: Print shows an interior view of a room in which a tightly corsetted courtesan 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.

Notes: 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) / ...

Subjects: Prostitution--England--1740-1760
Relations between the sexes--England--1740-1760
Women--England--1740-1760

Original Media: Engraving|Etching

Collections: Cartoon Prints, British » more info...

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