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Prostitutes

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Images from the collections

Images about Prostitutes

109 images from works
  • Working to prevent people dying from AIDS / AVERT.
  • Doctor Cromm talks to a diseased prostitute; surrounded by macabre symbols of contemporary French politics. Lithograph by Félicien Rops.
  • Solomon judges the case of the two harlots and their babies. Line engraving by J. Eisenhardt, 1847, after E. von Steinle.
  • A young woman helping another with her toilet while an old woman prays. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • The reporting of HIV & AIDS in the Third World / UK NGO AIDS Consortium for the Third World.
  • AIDS & sex : what everyone should know / issued by the Scottish Health Education Group.
  • HIV : the facts for women who sell sex : no-nonsense information about HIV for women who work as prostitutes / Immunity Publications Ltd.
  • Ich will dich, du willst mich, ganz klar. Colour lithograph by D.U.T.T.A. and Augenblitz.
  • A prostitute leading an old man into the bedroom and taking money from him; implying that her services will act like a tonic and preserve his state of health. Coloured etching, 18--, after T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Phyllis Johnson, a prostitute with her name and price. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar, 180- (?).

Works from the collections

3,139 works

    • Ephemera

    Naughty schoolgirl : needs to be taken in hand : open late Mayfair.

    | Date: [1993]
    • Ephemera

    "New" Indian beauty 18 years : open early til late : water sport, hard sport, V.I.P, bubble bath, hotel visits : off Tottenham Ct Rd., Warren St., Gt. Portland St. : local.

    | Date: [2001]
    • Ephemera

    Little Miss Madam : 1 min from Baker Street.

    | Date: [1993]
    • Ephemera

    A touch of asian magic : busty masseuse.

    | Date: [1991]
    • Ephemera

    Genuine busty 17 yr. old school girl loves to be punished!!.

    | Date: [1991]

Related topics

Prostitution
Sex
London
Sadomasochism
Corporal punishment
Sexual dominance and submission
Baker Street (London, England)
Blondes
Bondage (Sexual behavior)
Breast

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