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[Etching] [picture]
- Author
- Lafnet, Luc, 1899-1939.
- Title
- [Etching] [picture] / Viset.
- Format
- Image
- Published
- [ca. 1840?]
- Description
- 1 art print : etching, b&w ; 16 x 10 cm.
- Notes
- Title supplied by cataloger. Size when matted: 33 x 26 cm. Place of origin: [France]
- Summary
- Bordello scene. A line of men on a staircase watching a copulating couple through an open door. Identical illustration found in a 1927 edition of Théophile Gautier's Lettres á la presidente et galanteries poétiques. See P. & E. Kronhausen, Erotic art (New York 1968) p. 104, pl. 17 for 1840 date. Upper and lower right corners torn. Left edge cut where once bound in book. Smudged. White mat.
- Subject headings
- Gautier, Théophile,--1811-1872
- Kinsey subjects
- Book illustration. Brothels--France--19th century.
- Subject headings
- France.