[A mother abbess of the last class] [graphic].

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Title: [A mother abbess of the last class] [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: March 1st, 1773.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: "Plate 4 of a series of courtesans, see British Museum Satires No. 5177, the title showing that she is the keeper of a brothel. A stout truculent-looking woman in profile to the left. Her face is heavily patched. She wears a mob-cap, beneath which her hair appears on her forehead and below her ear; over her shoulders is a handkerchief, and round her neck a string of beads."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description: Title from earlier state.
Later state, with title burnished from plate. Cf. No. 5181 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered "4" in upper left corner.
First of three plates on leaf 108.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.7 x 13 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 45 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 108. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Prostitution
Hats
Subjects: Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Prostitution
Hats
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

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