Love's Last Shift or The Old Fool in Fashion (How Frail is Man!)
Printmaker:
Unknown
Publisher:
Sayer, Robert
Publisher:
Bennett, J.
A prostitute welcoming a client, taking him by the hand and gesturing to left at a bed; a poodle at the man's feet and a picture of Venus and Cupid above the doorway in the background. The man purported to be the Duke of Queensbury.
History note: From the collection of Frederic Robert Halsey (1847-1918) [Lugt 1308]
Given by Louis C. G. Clarke, September 1940
Method of acquisition: Given (1940) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1786
Inscriptions on bottom "(How Frail is Man!)" and "London; Publish'd as the Act directs, Jan.y 2, 1786, by R. Sayer & J. Bennett, Map, Chart, & Printsellers, & Globe-makers, No. 53, Fleet Street."
Accession number: P.180-1940
Primary reference Number: 206204
Lugt: 1308
Chaloner Smith: 171, p.1755
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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