File:The Whore's Last Shift (BM 1868,0808.4586).jpg
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The Whore's Last Shift
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Print made by: James Gillray
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The Whore's Last Shift |
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English: A woman stands in a sordid and poverty-stricken 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. The low bed has tattered coverings. A casement window (left) is open, showing the roof of a neighbouring house; on the sill a cat miaows. A broadside ballad is pinned to the window recess: "The comforts of Single Life. An Old Song". On the wall is a torn print, "Ariadne Forsaken". The plaster has peeled off the wall in patches, showing bricks. 9 February 1779
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| Date | 1779 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1868,0808.4586 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) Grego, 'Gillray', p. 28 ....................... On the plate is written in a later hand "portrait of Lady Worsley" (Cf. BMSat 6105-12) but Lady Worsley's trial and Gillray's responses came two years later. Vic Gatrell (City of Laughter, pp. 104-106) points out that Gillray's treatment is ambiguous. He evokes the contrast between the bleak reality of a prostitute's life and the finery of her outward presentation, but it is not clear whether he is condemning her or sympathising. See 1935,0522.1.108 for a derivation published by Carington Bowles. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4586 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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