Two prostitutes stand on a street identified as the notorious Gunpowder Alley; the one woman on the right with crossed-arms turns her head to talk to a short man. On the left, a man in a shop with a sign over the door "Booth's Best British Gin" pours...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 7th, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, N. 1 James Street, Adelphi
A night scene (or early morning) in a London street. A countryman responds to the advances of two young prostitutes, one of whom takes a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. They are lit by the lantern hanging in a watchman's box; the aged watchman slee...
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Title etched below image.
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Pubd. April 20, 1806, by T. Rowlandson, James St., Adelphi
"One of a set of eight plates, No. 7 (not mentioned by Grego) being missing, all having the same signatures. They may have been intended to burlesque Wheatley's 'Cries' (1793-7), from which they appear to derive. [The subjects are different from those...
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Title etched below series title and number.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1t., 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Birdcages, Children, Dogs, Houses, Men, Mousetraps, Peddlers, Prostitutes, Rabbits, Rats, and Street vendors
A night scene under the Piazza of Covent Garden, the center of which is seen through the arch of the arcade. A couple hurry arm-in-arm through a doorway (right) over which is Haddocks (a bagnio). The woman is the Duchess of Devonshire, shown with a ba...
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Dark lantern business, or, Mrs. Hob and Nob on a night canvass with a bosom friend and Mrs. Hob and Nob on a night canvass with a bosom friend
Description:
Title etched below image.
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Pub. April 24th, 1784, by H. Humphrey, Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806, Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816, and Covent Garden (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Lanterns, Lighting, People with disabilities, Political elections, and Prostitutes
Photographs created by E. J. Bellocq chiefly of nude prostitutes in Storyville, New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1910-1915, and printed from his negatives by an unidentified printer, probably in 1950
Description:
E. J. Bellocq (1873-1949), born John Ernest Joseph Bellocq, was a commercial photographer who worked in New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1902-circa 1940. Bellocq is best known for his photographs of prostitutes working in Storyville, the legalized red li...
Subject (Geographic):
Louisiana, New Orleans., New Orleans, and Storyville (New Orleans, La.)
Subject (Name):
Bellocq, E. J. and Stransky, Abraham, 1910-1995.
Subject (Topic):
Photographers, Photography of the nude, Photography of women, Photography, Artistic, and Prostitutes
"A decrepit old man stands at the door of a house of ill fame at the corner of Portland Street; Mrs Burke is on the door-plate. One hand is on the knocker; he turns to scowl at a woman (right) who holds out a bunch of water-cress from a large shallow ...
Alternative Title:
Watercresses, come buy my watercresses
Description:
Title etched below series title and number.
Publisher:
Pub. Mar. 1, 1799, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Children, City & town life, Mothers, Peddlers, Prostitutes, Vegetables, and Women
