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Nudité et pudeur : le mythe du processus de civilisation / Hans Peter Duerr ; traduit de l'allemand par Véronique Bodin avec la participation de Jacqueline Pincemin.
Hans Peter DuerrDate: [1998], ©1998
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A woman giving birth aided by a surgeon who fumbles beneath a sheet to save the lady from embarassment. Wood engraving after a woodcut, 1711.
Reference: 16944i
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A young woman, taken by surprise, covers her breasts. Stipple engraving with etching by W. Roffe after C.-M. Dubufe.
Claude-Marie DubufeDate: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 673009i
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Saint Gregory the Great: thinking himself unworthy to be Pope, he retires to a cave and studies the scriptures, but churchmen come to persuade him to return to Rome. Engraving by P.P. Moles, 1769, after C. van Loo.
Charles-André van LooDate: [1769?]Reference: 8617i- Books
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Comarum akosmia : the loathsomnesse of long haire, or, A treatise wherein you have the question stated, many arguments against it produc'd, and the most materiall arguguments [sic] for it refell'd and answer'd : with the concurrent judgement of divines both old and new against it : with an appendix against painting, spots, naked breasts, &c. / by Thomas Hall.
Thomas HallDate: 1654