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Pittsburgh Adult Entertainment: Artwork from past centuries shows a range of satire

March 3, 2010

In a scene from 1803 called “The Bulstrode Siren,” James Gillray, another English engraver, caricatures opera singer Elizabeth Billington and William Bentinck, the third Duke of Portland. Rumors abounded that the duke paid Billington for private appearances at his estate, called Bulstrode. Gillray portrays Billington as a homely woman and the older duke as a youth, highlighting the substantial age difference between the two.
The show features a broad range of emotion.
“Some of it’s lighthearted. Sometimes, it really is quite dark, risque or upsetting. If you were the butt of the joke, it’s not so funny at all,” Ms. Zehnder said.
By age 12, Hogarth was an apprentice learning to engrave silver tankards. In “Marriage a la Mode,” Hogarth makes fun of the nouveau riche, showing a middle-class woman who marries above her means.
But there’s real pathos in Hogarth’s series of nine engravings with the ironic title of “A Harlot’s Progress.” In successive images from 1732, the artist shows a young girl arriving in the big city, hoping to earn a living as a seamstress. Instead, she turns to prostitution, and the end of her life is truly wretched and depressing.

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