An ugly and bedizened old woman walks (right to left) supported by two footmen in livery; in her left hand is a closed fan. She wears a feathered hat perched on the side of her head; her withered breasts are much exposed: she says, "nasty custom to wear hankercheifs". The footman on her right carries a pile of books: 'rochesters poems', 'ovid's art of love', 'aristotles master peice', 'woman of pleasure', 'female flagelents', and (title erased) 'for young ladies'; these are: 'a choice colection for the young lady's'. One man says with a frown: "she stinks like a pole cat". The other footman holds his nose. A dog (left) barks at them. On the right, watching them from behind, stands a fashionably dressed young buck, legs astride, regarding her through a single eye-glass; he says with a grin: "grace is in all her steps a blast in her eye in every gesture dignity and love. " they are at the corner of a street inscribed (left) 'to the pump room' and (right) 'laura place'. 21 november 1792. Hand-coloured etching. Date: 1792. Dimensions: Height: 254 mm; Width: 350 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. The Maid of Bath, or Mac in her teens (BM 1868,0808.6239)
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