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[Illustrations for Le portier des chartreux] [pictures]
- Author
- Borel, Antoine, 1743-1810.
- Title
- [Illustrations for Le portier des chartreux] [pictures] / [Antoine Borel artist, Françoise Rolland Elluin engraver]
- Format
- Image
- Published
- [ca. 1787]
- Description
- 16 art reproductions (4 sheets) : photographs, b&w ; 9 x 6 cm.
- Other contributors
- Elluin, François-Rolland, 1745-1810.
- Notes
- Title supplied by cataloger. Size when mounted: 26 x 21 cm. Place of origin: [France]
- Summary
- Scenes of heterosexual and group sex activity, many involving monks. Photographs of plates found in German edition (Leipzig 1911) of Le portier des chartreux by Jean Charles Gervaise de Latouche. Originals from set of "24 completed for the Cazin edition of Le portier des chartreux under the title: Memoires de Saturnin, écrits par lui-même (Gervaise de Latouche, Jean Charles, 1715-1782), 2 vols. 'À Londres' (Cazin), 1787." Reference, with attribution and date: Gordon Grimley, Erotic illustrations (New York 1974), pl. 1-14.
- Subject headings
- Gervaise de Latouche, Jean-Charles,--1715-1782.
- Kinsey subjects
- Book illustration. Anticlericalism motif--France--18th century.
- Subject headings
- France.