Set of two lesbians linked in a physical and emotional community

Lady Strachan and Lady Warwick making love in a park, while their husbands look on with disapproval. Coloured etching, ca. 1820.

Ça change quoi pour toi? : Pouvoir parler sans crainte de ma vie de couple et de ma femme à mes collègues : ça change tout pour moi. Ça change quoi pour toi? / Crips Île-de-France.

Two women engaged in sexual intercourse in a neoclassical canopied bed. Etching, ca. 1780.

Sarah Ponsonby (left)and Lady Eleanor Butler, recluses known as the Ladies of Llangollen, seated in their library. Lithograph by R.J. Lane, ca. 1832, after Mary Parker (later Lady Leighton), 1828.

1 print : lithograph ; image 22.9 x 19.8 cm

The Ladies of Llangollen (in Library).

Have you been / are you in an abusive lesbian relationship? / Fighting Spirit.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; 23.5 x 35.1 cm

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Sarah Ponsonby (left)and Lady Eleanor Butler, recluses known as the Ladies of Llangollen, seated in their library. Lithograph by R.J. Lane, ca. 1832, after Mary Parker (later Lady Leighton), 1828.

Ça change quoi pour toi? : Pouvoir parler sans crainte de ma vie de couple et de ma femme à mes collègues : ça change tout pour moi. Ça change quoi pour toi? / Crips Île-de-France.

The Ladies of Llangollen (in Library).

Have you been / are you in an abusive lesbian relationship? / Fighting Spirit.

Lady Strachan and Lady Warwick making love in a park, while their husbands look on with disapproval. Coloured etching, ca. 1820.

Lesbian couples

Images from the collections

Images referencing Lesbian couples

Works from the collections

Sarah Ponsonby (left)and Lady Eleanor Butler, recluses known as the Ladies of Llangollen, seated in their library. Lithograph by R.J. Lane, ca. 1832, after Mary Parker (later Lady Leighton), 1828.

Ça change quoi pour toi? : Pouvoir parler sans crainte de ma vie de couple et de ma femme à mes collègues : ça change tout pour moi. Ça change quoi pour toi? / Crips Île-de-France.

The Ladies of Llangollen (in Library).

Have you been / are you in an abusive lesbian relationship? / Fighting Spirit.

Lady Strachan and Lady Warwick making love in a park, while their husbands look on with disapproval. Coloured etching, ca. 1820.

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