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Adultery

Images

  • Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Etching by W. Unger after Titian.
  • Zaleucus having one of his eyes removed for one of his son's eyes, with six lines of verse by A. Montanus below. Line engraving by H. Quellinus after A. Quellinus.
  • Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.
  • Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by W. Bromley after P.P. Rubens.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
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    A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.

    | Date: [1852?] | Reference: 563243i
    Part of: Morality of modern medicine-mongers. Dedicated to the husbands, fathers, and brothers, of England, and also to the societies for the prevention of vice
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    A man leans on the shoulder of his partner while looking back at another woman with the message: "Absence of trust is the end of safety. AIDS is not like getting a cold ... Do not give AIDS a chance". Colour lithograph, 199-.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 673636i
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    The London cuckold: or, an antient citizens head well fitted with a flourishing pair of fashionable horns : by his buxome young wife, who was well back'd by a coltish spark, in the time of her husbands absence at the campaign on Hounslow-Heath. Tune of, O mother! Roger, &c. This may be printed, R.P.

    | Date: [1688]
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    Tropic of Capricorn / Henry Miller.

    Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 | Date: 1964
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    The catologue of contented cuckolds: or, A loving society of confessing brethren of the forked order, &c : who being met together in a tavern, declar'd each man his condition, resolving to be contented, and drown'd melancholly in a glass of necktar. To the tune of, Fond boy, &c. or, love's a sweet passion, &c.

    | Date: [1685?]
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