<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The last shift [graphic]</dc:title><dc:date>[11 April 1809]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"One of a set of aquatint copies of Rowlandson's watercolours, all signed 'Rowlandson', see British Museum Satires No. 11111 &amp;c. A pawnbroker's shop, with the (?) street door on the left, and on the right a receiving office, a rectangular opening in a wall, dividing the interior from the lobby in which the customers stand. At this stands a gay young courtesan, tattered but comely, looking at a gap-toothed Jew who holds up the ragged shift or chemise which she has brought. A fat bawd grasping a bottle stands behind her, and pushing through the door is a man with a grotesque profile suggesting decay. A barelegged child with a flat-iron and gridiron stands at the counter looking up at the Jew. In the recess behind the Jew goods are piled on shelves, a saucepan, garments, &amp;c. In large letters next the street door is 'Money Lent', with the sign of three balls."--British Museum online catalogue</dc:description><dc:description>Title etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 90.</dc:description><dc:description>Mounted on leaf 12 of volume 10 of 14 volumes.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>