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A St Giles's beauty.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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A St Giles's beauty.
Description
English: A companion print to BMSat 6764. A smiling and buxom young prostitute is seated, full-face, one arm across the back of her chair, the other leaning on a small table on which are a bottle, a glass, and bread. Her hair falls on her shoulders; she holds one end of a kerchief exposing her breast. The room is slatternly, the ceiling is broken, and there is a hole in the floor. The walls are stencilled or papered. Torn bed-curtains hang against the wall over a mattress which is propped against it. On the floor is a bunch of flowers in a chamber-pot. A broadside on the wall is headed by a print of a Tyburn crowd surrounding four bodies hanging from a gallows. Through an open sash-window with broken panes the roofs of houses are seen; behind them is a church steeple. 1784
Mezzotint
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 354 millimetres
Width: 252 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1873,0712.812
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1873-0712-812
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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