A history of English sexual morals / by Ivan Bloch ; translated by William H. Forstern.

  • Iwan Bloch
Date:
1936
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Credit: A history of English sexual morals / by Ivan Bloch ; translated by William H. Forstern. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ue is about to leave. The old man's face expresses lustful i ^sire. No.' 97- ' Tne Ghost of my Departed Husband, or Whither iy Love, ah! Whither art Thou Gone? ' shows a churchyard. Ln old, 'extremely ugly woman has fallen on her back, vidently frightened by the watchman, who held his lantern (1 front of her face. Under her lies a naked, flattened ghost. « The Discovery ' represents a pair of lovers being dis- covered in flagranti delicto by an old man with a poker. The -oung man is kneeling in front of him, while the girl is crying. I In ' Washing Trotters ' we see a very poorly furnished oom. An ugly man and a pretty young woman are sitting acing each other, with their feet in the same tub. ' Work for Doctors' Commons.' A room. Two men, one of whom is evidently the husband, are watching from behind I wardrobe a pair of lovers who are kissing on the sofa. There is a fire burning in the room, and a guitar is lying on the floor. This etching represents General Upton and Mrs. Walsh, who were involved in a scandalous affair which caused a great stir at the time. ' Opening the Sluices, or Holland's Last Shift' shows a few dozen stout women crouching on the beach, being offered gin by a big man. A few soldiers are standing up to the waist in the sea. 'Rural Sports, or a Pleasant Way of Making Hay' shows two young men and three girls larking in a hayfield, while a fourth is about to throw some hay over them. In the background some men and women are loading hay. ' A View of the Banks of the Thames.' Two women, an old one and a pretty young one, are going away from the river, in which a number of naked men are bathing. But they'both look back over their shoulders, the old woman remarking: ' Oh, shame on the unmannerly feUows; please tell me, Sophy, when we're far enough away? ' [645]