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Chastity

Images

  • Half-clothed Tilottama flying in the sky playing with a red ball. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Iron chastity belt, possibly 16th Century
  • A virgin and a unicorn; representing chastity. Oil painting.
  • A knight who has returned home from the Crusades sits in his bedchamber bemoaning the fact that he has left the key to his wife's chastity belt in Jerusalem. Ink drawing by B. Roy, c.1900.
  • A virgin and a unicorn; representing chastity. Oil painting.
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Catalogue

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    Hadriani Beverlandi De fornicatione cavenda admonitio, sive, Adhortatio ad pudicitiam et castitatem.

    Beverland, Hadriaan, 1650-1716 | Date: 1697
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    The honor of chastity : A sermon, made and preached by Iohn Featly.

    Featley, John, 1605?-1666 | Date: 1632
    • Ephemera

    The happy man : and the true gentleman.

    | Date: [between 1790 and 1799?]
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    The down-right country-man; or, The faithful dairy-maid· : utmind [sic] how country lads do boast, whilst Londoners are blam'd, and country lasses praised most, while ours are wags proclaim'd. The tune is, Hey boys up go we: or, Busie fame.

    | Date: [between 1670-1696]
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    An English padlock.

    Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721 | Date: 1705
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