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Chastity belts

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Sexual Abstinence
Chastity

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Images from the collections

Images about Chastity belts

9 images from works
  • A chastity belt in the Musée de Cluny in Paris. Process print, 19--.
  • The use of the chastity belt. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916, after H. Wirings.
  • A young man has no need to find the right key to fit woman's chastity belt, as her Crusader husband has locked it with a combination lock. Photomechanical reproduction.
  • The girdle of chastity : a medico-historical study / by Eric John Dingwall.
  • The use of the chastity belt. Oil painting by H. Hayman, 1916, after H. Wirings.
  • 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 chastity belt decorated with a representation of Adam and Eve under the Tree of Life. Process print.
  • The girdle of chastity : a medico-historical study / by Eric John Dingwall.
  • The girdle of chastity : a medico-historical study / by Eric John Dingwall.

Works from the collections

22 works

    • Pictures
    • Online

    A young man has no need to find the right key to fit woman's chastity belt, as her Crusader husband has locked it with a combination lock. Photomechanical reproduction.

    | Reference: 27795i
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0001263: Reproduction of an illustration depicting a man attaching or removing a chasity belt on a nude woman sitting on a bed

    | Date: 19 August 1930 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/11/95
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0012510: Iron chastity belt, 15th-16th century

    | Date: May 1952 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/111/82
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0012514: Steel chastity belt, 16th century

    | Date: May 1952 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/111/86
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Pictures
    • Online

    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.

    Roy, Bernard, 1845-1919. | Reference: 27798i

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Sexual Abstinence

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