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The Last Shift   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The Last Shift
Description
English: A courtesan stands at a wash-tub, washing her last shift. She wears a cap over ringlets in curl-papers and a tattered petticoat, a shawl covers her naked shoulders. The room is squalid, with plaster falling from the bricks. Across the fireplace stockings hang on a string to dry. The corner of a bed appears on the right. On the table by the wash-tub is a small gin tankard. Under it is a pair of stays. A cat tries to reach a (broken) plate of cheese on a chair. On the floor, beside a fashionable high-crowned hat, lies a ballad: 'How happy were my days till now...'. Papers are thrust under the vertical bar of the casement window, one inscribed 'Admit Two to the Boxes'. Probably an imitation of Gillray's 'The Whores Last Shift', see BMSat 5604. c.1792
Hand-coloured mezzotint
Date between 1791 and 1793
date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 353 millimetres
Width: 249 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.1.108
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-108
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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