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  Image 4 and 5 Progress of a Woman of Pleasure by Richard Newton.

  Image 6 St James’s and St Giles’s by Thomas Rowlandson, 1794. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr08182

  Image 7 Dividing the Spoil, St James’s and St Giles’s by Isaac Cruikshank, 1796. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr09823

  Image 8 Plate One of A Harlot’s Progress, by William Hogarth, 1732. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr22337

  Image 9 The Whore’s Last shift, by James Gillray, 1779. © National Portrait Gallery. NPG D12977

  Image 10 The Merry Accident (with Kitty Fisher). Library of Congress. PC 2 Merry Accident

  Image 11 Six stages of mending a face by Thomas Rowlandson, 1792. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr07475

  Image 12 Crim. Con. Temptations with the prices affixed by Isaac Cruikshank, 1796. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr08758

  Image 13 Cross-examination of a Witness in a case of Crim. Con. published by

  SW Fores, 1818. Library of Congress PC3 – 1818

  Image 14 Flagellation engraved by John June, 1752. Library of Congress PC 3 – 1752—Flagellation

  Image 15 Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies, 1773. Wikimedia

  Image 16 Harris’s List or Cupids London Directory by Richard Newton, 1794. Library of Congress PC 3 – 1794

  Image 17 Dressing for a Masquerade by Thomas Rowlandson, 1790. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr06896

  Image 18 A Lesson Westward Robert Dighton, 1782. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. B1986.29.371

  Image 19 The Beauty Unmask’d by Henry Morland, 1770. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr02861

  Image 20 Plate Three from Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress, 1732-3. Sir John Soane’s Museum.

  Image 21 Cunnyseurs by Thomas Rowlandson. Via Wikimedia Commons.

  Image 22 The rival knights or the Englishman in Paris by Thomas Rowlandson. Via Wikimedia Commons.

  Image 23 A Lobby Flesh-Monger treating with a Saleswoman for a Prime Piece published by W Dent, 1790. Library of Congress. PC3 – 1790

  Image 24 A Covent Garden Morning Frolick by Louis Philippe Boitard. Yale Center for British Art. B1977.14.15826

  Image 25 Mrs. Horton, later Viscountess Maynard (formerly Nancy Parsons) painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund. 45.59.3

  Image 26 Kitty Fisher painted by Nathaniel Hone, 1765. © National Portrait Gallery. NPG 2354

  Image 27 Grace Dalrymple Elliott, by Thomas Gainsborough, 1778. Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of William K. Vanderbilt. 20.155.1

  Image 28 Frances Abington as Prue painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1771. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. B1977.14.67

  Image 29 The Bird of Paradise- the name given to Gertrude Mahon. Print by Carington Bowles. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr04723

  Image 30 Vis a vis bisected, or the Ladies Coop by M Darly. Library of Congress PC 1 – 5373

  Image 31 The General Out-Generalled, or, first come, first served 1808. Library of Congress. PC 2 – General out-generalled

  Image 32 Fashionable Contrasts or the Duchess’s little shoe yielding to the Magnitude of the Duke’s Foot by James Gillray, 1792. Yale Center for British Art. B1977.14.21012(20)

  Image 33 The Light Guinea, or, the Blade in the Dumps Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr03817

  Image 34 An Evening’s Invitation, with a Wink from the Bagnio published by Carington Bowles in 1773.

  Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr03558

  Image 35 The Beggar’s Opera, with Captain Macheath upbraided by Polly and Lucy, by G S Newton, 1826. Yale Center for British Art. B1973.1.42

  Image 36 Very Slippy Weather by James Gillray, 1808. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr10996

  Image 37 Sandwich Carrots, dainty sandwich carrots by James Gillray, 1796. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr08790

  Image 38 Contemplations upon a Coronet by James Gillray, 1797. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr08927

  Image 39 A voluptuary under the Throes of Digestion by James Gillray, 1792. Library of Congress. PC 1 – 8112

  Image 40 The Devil to Pay: the Wife metamorphos’d, or Neptune reposing after fording the Jordan by James Gillray,1791. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr07247

  Image 41 Symptoms of Lewdness, or, a peep into the boxes by Isaac Cruikshank, 1794. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr08317

  Image 42 Fashionable Jockeyship by James Gillray, 1796. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr09830

  Image 43 A peep into Brest by Richard Newton. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr08335

  Image 44 Which way shall I turn me by Richard Newton. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr08336

  Image 45 Launching a Frigate by Richard Newton. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr11127

  Image 46 Future Prospects, or, symptoms of Love in High Life by Isaac Cruikshank, 1796. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr09828

  Image 47 A luncheon at Gibside by Isaac Cruikshank. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr07450

  Image 48 A wooden substitute – any port in a storm by Theodore Lane. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund. 17.3.888-235

  Image 49 Dignity by Theodore Lane, 1821. Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Adele S Gollin. 1976.602.1

  Image 50 Ah! Such a pair was never seen so justly form’d to meet by Nature – Old Sherry by George Cruikshank. Library of Congress. PC 1 – 13735

  Image 51 The Goats canter to Windsor, or, Cuckold’s Comfort published by J Wallis in 1784. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr05446

  Image 52 King Henry IV showing King George IV as his regal predecessor, by William Heath, 1829. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr13027

  Image 53 Florizel and Perdita published in 1783. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr05237

  Image 54 The Rage by W Hintin, 1794. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr08390

  Image 55 Filial Piety by Thomas Rowlandson, 1788. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr06500

  Image 56 Installation of a Knight Companion of the Bath attributed to Theodore Lane, published by George Humphrey, 1821. Wikimedia

  Image 57 The Modern Circe, or, a sequel to the Petticoat by Isaac Cruikshank, 1809. Library of Congress. PC 1 – 11252

  Image 58 Nauticus by James Gillray, 1791. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr07241

  Image 59 Wouski by James Gillray, 1788. Yale Center for British Art. B1977.14.21012(5)

  Image 60 The accommodating spouse; Tyr-nn-es delight! – coming York over her; – or what you like by James Gillray, 1789. © National Portrait Gallery. NPG D12999

  Image 61 The Tar and the Jordan by Richard Newton, 1797. Yale Center for British Art. B1981.25.1471

  Image 62 Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed – Nancy Parsons and the Duke of Grafton. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr02768

  Image 63 Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed – Lady Waldegrave and the Duke of Gloucester. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr02755

  Image 64 The Shilling, or, the value of a P(rivy) C(ounsell)or’s Matrimonial Honor. Published by Hannah Humphrey, 1782. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr04908

  Image 65 A peep into Lady W!!!!’s Seraglio by James Gillray, 1782. © National Portrait Gallery. NPG D12984

  Image 66 The Thunderer by James Gillray. © National Portrait Gallery. NPG D12981

  Image 67 Teresia Constantia Phillips Mezzotint by Robert Sayers, after Joseph Highmore. Princeton University Library.

  Image 68 Colonel Francisco i.e. Francis Charteris by George Francis, 1730. National Portrait Gallery. NPG D1263

  Image 69 Quiz-zing a Filly by James Gillray, 1795. Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. lwlpr08553

  Image 1. A Bagnigge Wells scene. Two whor
es, dressed to the nines, ply their trade at the fashionable Islington spa. (See pp. viii and 3)

  Image 2. Retail Traders not affected by the shop tax. Everything, but everything, was for sale at Covent Garden. (See p. 10)

  Image 3. A St Giles’s Beauty. (See p. 24)

  Images 4 and 5. Progress of a Woman of Pleasure. (See pp. 4 and 71)

  Image 6. St James’s & St Giles’s. (See p. 3)

  Image 7. Dividing the Spoil. (See p. 3)

  Image 8. A Harlot’s Progress. (See pp. 3, 28 and 59)

  Image 9. The Whore’s Last Shift. (See p. 3)

  Image 10. The Merry Accident’ with Kitty Fisher showing rather a lot of leg, deliberately. (See p. 38)

  Image 11. Rowlandson’s Six Stages of Mending a Face, from bald hag at top left to beguiling temptress at bottom left. Six Stages of Mending a Face. Moll is befriended by the procuress Mother Needham. (See p. 12)

  Image 12. Crim. Con. Temptations. (See p. 13)

  Image 13. Cross-examination of a Witness. (See p. 13)

  Image 14. Flagellation. (See p. 14)

  Image 15. Harris’s List. (See p. 16)

  Image 16. Cupid’s London Directory. (See p. 16)

  Image 17. Dressing for a Masquerade. The whores select their chosen outfits. (See p. 19)

  Image 18. A Lesson Westward. (See p. 38)

  Image 19. The Beauty Unmask’d. (See p. 19)

  Image 20. A Rake’s Progress. (See pp. 20 and 59)

  Image 21. Cunnyseurs. (See p. 20)

  Image 22. The Rival Knights. (See p. 59)

  Image 23. A Lobby Flesh-Monger. A young man negotiates a fee for the young lady. (See p. 25)

  Image 24. The Covent Garden Frolick. Morning breaks, after a hard night on the town. (See p. 27)

  Image 25. Nancy Parsons. (See p. 36)

  Image 26. Kitty Fisher. (See p. 37)

  Image 27. Grace Dalrymple Elliott. (See pp. 42 and 87)

  Image 28. Frances Abington. (See p. 44)

  Image 29. The Bird of Paradise. (See p. 40)

  Image 30. The vis-à-vis bisected. (See pp. 31 and 42)

  Image 31. The General Out-Generall’d. (See p. 52)

  Image 32. Fashionable Contrasts. (See p. 70)

  Image 33. The Light Guinea. (See p. 60)

  Image 34. A Wink from the Bagnio. (See p. 54)

  Image 35. The Beggar’s Opera. (See p. 58)

  Image 36. Very Slippy Weather. (See p. 69)

  Image 37. Sandwich Carrots. (See p. 70)

  Image 38. Contemplations upon a Coronet. (See p. 112)

  Image 39. A Voluptuary under the Horrors of Digestion. (See pp. 70 and 85)

  Image 40. The Devil to Pay. The future William IV sleeps soundly after a night with Dorothea Jordan. (See pp. 72 and 93)

  Image 41. Symptoms of Lewdness. Mrs Fitzherbert and the Countess of Buckinghamshire share a box at the opera. (See p. 72)

  Image 42. Fashionable Jockeyship. (See p. 88)

  Image 43. A Peep into Brest. (See p. 72)

  Image 44. Which Way shall I turn me. (See p. 72)

  Image 45. Launching a Frigate. (See p. 72)

  Image 46. Future Prospects. The angry Prince of Wales seeks to escape domesticity,observed by his wife and baby daughter – and by the cuckolded Lord Jersey. (See p. 89)

  Image 47. A Luncheon at Gibside. John Bowes is making a meal of Lady Sarah while her husband, the Earl of Tyrconnel, rides by. (See p. 99)

  Image 48. A Wooden Substitute. (See pp. 72 and 89)

  Image 49. Dignity. (See pp. 72 and 89)

  These unflattering pictures of Queen Caroline refer to the rumours that she was spreading her favours around.

  Image 50. Ah, such a pair… Old Sherry. George IV and his wife, represented by sacks of evidence of their adulterous conduct. (See pp. 72 and 90)

  Image 51. The Goats Canter to Windsor. (See p. 85)

  Image 52. George IV as Henry IV. (See p. 72)

  Image 53. Florizel and Perdita. (See pp. 49 and 85)

  Image 54. The Rage. Queen Caroline squares up to Maria Fitzerbert. (See p. 89)

  Image 55. Filial Piety. It shows the carousing Prince, with friends, bursting in on George III, who is ill in bed.

  Image 56. Installation of a Knight Commander of the Bath. Queen Caroline shares a bath tub with her swarthy Italian boyfriend. (See p. 90)

  Image 57. The Modern Circe. Mary Clarke, mistress of the Duke of York, was notorious for selling army commissions. (See p. 92)

  Image 58. Nauticus. The future William IV. (See p. 93)

  Image 59. Wouski. The sailor prince enjoying life in Jamaica. (See p. 93)

  Image 60. The Accommodating Spouse. The Duke of York hops into bed with Sarah, Countess of Tyrconnel. (See p. 99)

  Image 61. The Tar and the Jordan. William, Duke of Clarence, runs away from gossip-mongers discussing his affair with Dorothea Jordan. (See p. 93)

  Image 62. Tête-à-tête Nancy Parsons and the Duke of Grafton. (See p. 57)

  Image 63. Tête-à-tête Lady Waldegrave and the Duke of Gloucester. (See pp. 57 and 84)

  Image 64. The Shilling. (See p. 102)

  Image 65. A peep into Lady W!!!!!’s Seraglio. (See p. 103)

  Image 66. The Thunderer. (See p. 146)

  Image 67. Teresia Constantia Phillips. (See p. 129)

  Image 68. The loathsome Francis Charteris. (See p. 119)

  Image 69. Quiz-zing a Filly. (See p. 148)