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The harlots nurse, or modern procuress / Boitard sculpt., British Cartoon Print

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The harlots nurse, or modern procuress / Boitard sculpt., British Cartoon Print

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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.
Printed for & sold by the Propriator John Ryall at Hogarth's Head in the Fleet Street, London.
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) / ...
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

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01/01/1750
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Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, engraver
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Library of Congress
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