Who gains the point [graphic].

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Description

Title
Who gains the point [graphic].
Published / Created
as the Act directs 1st. May 1779.
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map & Printsellers, No. 53, Fleet Street
Abstract

An ugly man (left) and procuress in a hooded cloak (center) haggle over the price for a young, fashionably dressed prostitute (right) who holds a fan in her left hand. The procuress has her one hand on the man's left hand with her other hand on the young woman's shoulder as they look at the man counting out the coins. On the right is an open doorway in the background. On the wall above the procuresses head is a sconce with two candles, the right one higher than the one on the left

Description
Title from caption below image.
Imprint from impression in the British Museum online catalogue. See Museum registration number 2010,7081.1441.
Verse in two columns below title begins: "The sordid wretch will purchase make with five where maidenheads at stake ..."
Sheet trimmed to plate mark, resulting in loss of imprint.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. For similar, Cf. museum registration number 2010,7081.1441 in British Museum online catalogue.
No. 51 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries.
Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Provenance
From the H.J. Peters sale, Sotheby's, lot 230; December 1960;
Extent
1 print : sheet 34.4 x 25 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 C697 770

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1779
Mezzotints England London 1779
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Prostitutes
Prostitution
Courtesans
Subjects
Prostitutes
Prostitution
Courtesans
England > 1779
England > London > 1779

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
11664931
Object ID (OID)
16192324

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