print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1851,0308.424
- Title
- Object: All Sorts. From the lucious Tid bit to the bouncing Jack Whore - From the Bunter in Rags to the gay Pompadour
- Description
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Satire on prostitution: a group of four women of different types in a park: one seated on a bench with her finger to her cheek looks coyly upwards; a plump woman in the foreground walks to left, looking to front; a young woman, poorly dressed, hands on hips, confronts a taller, fashionably dressed woman who llooks down at her with a sneer; a proof before all letters.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1775-1776
- Dimensions
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Height: 336 millimetres
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Width: 255 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This impression is inscribed in a XIXc hand on the backing sheet 'Elizabeth Leicester and Peg the Bunter of Covent Garden'.
Francis Grose (Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1785) defines a "Jack whore" as "a large masculine overgrown wench".
Samuel Johnson defined a "bunter" as "A cant word for a woman who picks up rags about the street; and used, by way of contempt, for any low vulgar woman".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1851,0308.424