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Mistresses

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  • A lecherous drinker sits with a girl at a barrel table in a dingy tavern. Engraving by P. Canot, c. 1756, after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Six fashionable young men after a drinking session, all with girls in their arms. Engraving, c. 1796.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
  • Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.
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    The female pest : an exposé of misogynist mythology / by Anthony Wilson.

    Wilson, Anthony, 1939 March 13- | Date: [1985], ©1985
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    Jean Sylvain Bailly, Mayor of Paris, with his mistress, both represented as chickens. Etching, 1791.

    | Date: 1791 | Reference: 15982i
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    Six fashionable young men after a drinking session, all with girls in their arms. Engraving, c. 1796.

    | Date: 7 March 1796 | Reference: 26872i
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    A busy street corner with traders stopping for a tankard of beer and an artist painting a pub sign. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

    Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. | Date: 1 February 1751 | Reference: 26456i
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    A drunken husband lies sleeping as his young wife plots furtively with her lover, a foreign soldier. Engraving by A. Capellan after G. B. Piazzetta.

    Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista, 1682-1754. | Date: 1700-1799 | Reference: 26936i
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