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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    brothel just as a young officer is entering the building J reflects one side of London life. The cartoon ' The Devor f shire, or Most Approved Manner of Securing Votes 'is [ dig at the Duchess of Devonshire who, during the election of 1784, literally lowered herself to the people in order J secure votes for her favourite, Charles Fox. The cartoor shows the Duchess kissing a fat butcher in the street for the! 1 sake of his vote. In 6 Opera Boxes ' we get a glimpse of the doings of the ' young bloods ' at the Opera, while ' Dami Sheets ' is a protest against the filth at English inns, h : ' A Little Tighter 5 Rowlandson mocked at the fashion oi tight lacing, while in his illustrations to Christopher Austey's 'New Bath Guide' he poked fun at the silly fashions practised at that fashionable resort. In a number of other remarkable drawings Rowlandson exposed the white slave traffic to India, and other evils. Rowlandson's rivals also tried their skill in the field of the erotic and the obscene. Prominent among them were the Cruikshank family. The father, Isaac Cruikshank, drew, among others, ' The Cherub: Or Guardian of Female Inno- cence ', which represents a young girl standing before a soothsayer, who is pointing to a mark on her body. There is a third woman in the background, and a man is spying on them from an upper window. ' The Invitation ', also by Isaac Cruikshank, was the frontispiece of a collection of 1 anecdotes entitled, Useful Hints to Single Gentlemen respecting Marriage, Concubinage and Adultery, etc. By Little Isaac. \ London: Printed for D. Brewman, 18, Little New Street, Shoe Lane. The drawing represents a girl sitting on a settee and talking with a man through the window. She is appar- ently inviting him to come in, and the man is refusing the invitation. The girl is evidently a prostitute. Isaac's son, the great George Cruikshank (1792-1878), drew the illustrations to John Cleland's famous erotic novel [648] 1