Abel Beechcroft, while reading in the library of his house in Lambeth, is disturbed when Hilda Scarve is led into the room by his butler Jukes. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.

Shakespeare and the new disease : the dramatic function of syphilis in Troilus and Cressida, Measure for measure, and Timon of Athens / Greg W. Bentley.

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Abel Beechcroft, while reading in the library of his house in Lambeth, is disturbed when Hilda Scarve is led into the room by his butler Jukes. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.

Shakespeare and the new disease : the dramatic function of syphilis in Troilus and Cressida, Measure for measure, and Timon of Athens / Greg W. Bentley.