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Bestiality

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  • Persian woman with an animal
  • A man copulating with a goat or deer. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A man copulating with a goat or deer. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A committee of English Nonconformists of the Commonwealth era receiving petitions from people accused of bestiality (a woman with a dog and a man with a horse); representing the danger that Puritanism might be revived in 1680 and seize power in Great Britain. Engraving after Sir R. Lestrange, 1680.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The world première of Whistling psyche by Sebastian Barry / The Almeida Theatre Company Ltd.

    | Date: 2004
    • Books

    American sexual histories / edited by Elizabeth Reis.

    | Date: 2001
    • Books

    The beast within : animals in the Middle Ages / Joyce E. Salisbury.

    Salisbury, Joyce E. | Date: 1994
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    Persian woman with an animal

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    The animal-human boundary : historical perspectives / edited by Angela N.H. Creager and William Chester Jordan.

    | Date: [2002], ©2002
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