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Erotica

Media, literature or art dealing substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing subject matter

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Images from the collections

Images of Erotica

64 images from works
  • A figure in the form of a phallic motif. Process print, 1921.
  • An oryx whose body is formed of three pairs of copulating humans. Gouache painting.
  • A devil buggering a man. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Two women embracing and using carrots as dildoes. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A figure in the form of a phallic motif. Process print, 1921.
  • A depiction of a Maenad holding a thyrsus aimed at the erect penis of a seated satyr. Colour process print, 1921.
  • Two women embracing and using carrots as dildoes. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • 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.
  • A man seducing a woman beneath an autumn moon. Gouache painting.
  • A naked Chinese man guides a naked woman out of a window. Gouache painting.
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Images about Erotica

1 image from works
  • A doctor who writes books of sexual advice talking to his cynical publisher. Coloured lithograph, 1852.

Works from the collections

Works using this type/technique
Works using this type/technique
Works about this type/technique
Works about this type/technique

113 works

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    A couple making love; outside the room, a garden is seen by moonlight. Gouache painting.

    | Date: [between 1890 and 1899] | Reference: 36499i
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    Merryland displayed: or, plagiarism, ignorance, and impudence, detected. : Being observations upon a pamphlet intituled A New Description of Merryland.

    | Date: MDCCXLI
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    A Chinese man and woman making love outside. Gouache painting.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 36521i
    • Books
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    The conjugal directory, or, The joys of hymen : a poem; in three books.

    | Date: [1825?]
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    A camel whose body is composed of copulating humans. Gouache painting.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 462556i
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Related topics

Sexual intercourse
Sex
Sexuality
Sexual Behavior
Ancient
Sexual Behavior
Pornography
China
Penile Erection
Homosexuality

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