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[Etching] [picture]

Author
Lafnet, Luc, 1899-1939.
Title
[Etching] [picture] / Viset.
Format
Image
Published
[ca. 1900?]
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
A monk and a woman engaged in sexual intercourse. Open Bible in foreground, group of onlookers in background. Identical illustration (reprint?) found in a 1927 edition of Théophile Gautier's Lettres á la presidente et galanteries poétiques. 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. Anticlericalism motif--France--19th century.
Subject headings
France.

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
397R V8297.2
Location
Kinsey Institute Library - Art