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  • A young woman helping another with her toilet while an old woman prays. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • A young woman casting aside her virginity to become a prostitute. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A woman falling headfirst through an open cellar-door outside a pharmacy, and a man expressing his concern. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank after G.M. Woodward, 1798.
  • A young woman helping another with her toilet while an old woman prays. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • A man tugged one way by a prostitute and the other way by a religious lady. Mezzotint, 1773.
  • Bagnigge Wells, London: two alluring, fashionably-dressed women, one plucking rosebuds. Mezzotint, 1780.
  • Moll Hackabout dangles a watch and a poxed maid ("bunter") empties the contents of a jug, while Sir John Gonson, a magistrate, and a group of bailiffs enter the room to arrest her. Engraving after William Hogarth, 1732.
  • Prostitution : stop aux violences : action de santé communautaire en milieu prostitutionnel / ARAP Rubis.
  • A man puts his hand into his purse to pay for the services of a young woman, as another hands her a pair of earrings. Mezzotint by J. Faber after P. Mercier.
  • Two young women chasing and sweeping bird figures with mens' heads out of a door, encouraged by two old men in religious habits. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • A young woman casting aside her virginity to become a prostitute. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Prostitution : stop aux violences : action de santé communautaire en milieu prostitutionnel / ARAP Rubis.
  • A woman pushes a trolley down a dilapidated street in Lima, Peru representing poverty; with 4 smaller images depicting social issues associated with AIDS including packets of money in bank safes, drugs and male prostitutes; an AIDS prevention advertisement by Pecos, the Programa Especial de Control del SIDA. Colour lithograph by Juan L. Gargurevich, ca. 1995.
  • A young prostitute wearing fake fur, getting into a car; representing the risk of contracting AIDS through not using a condom. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • A young soldier puts a coin into the hat of a wounded sailor as he knocks to gain entry to a brothel. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1781.
  • A prostitute gives evidence to a magistrate: she points towards Tom Idle dividing loot with his accomplice, as a corpse is being disposed of through a trapdoor. Engraving by Thomas Cook, 1795, after William Hogarth.