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Brothels

Images

  • La prostitution contemporaine : étude d'une question sociale / Léo Taxil.
  • A nobleman and his friends drink with prostitutes in a brothel. Aquatint after H. Dawe,  184-.
  • La prostitution contemporaine : étude d'une question sociale / Léo Taxil.
  • 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.
  • Upstairs at a brothel: a maid combs out a hairpiece while guests play the finger game "ken". Woodcut, 1808.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Peg Plunkett : memoirs of a whore / Julie Peakman.

    Peakman, Julie, 1957- | Date: 2015
    • Books

    The brothel of Pompeii : sex, class, and gender at the margins of Roman society / Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington, Seattle.

    Levin-Richardson, Sarah, 1980- | Date: 2019
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0006194: A medieval house of prostitution

    | Date: 18 April 1939 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/51/77
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Men with clubs break down the door of a London brothel to take their revenge for being robbed. Engraving, ca. 1795.

    | Date: [1749?] | Reference: 27976i
    • Books

    The burgher and the whore : prostitution in early modern Amsterdam / Lotte van de Pol.

    Pol, Lotte van de. | Date: 2011
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