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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    illeroy, by Sir Francis N. These memoirs consist of ^enty-four fetters, all dated 1770, alleged to have been ritten by a Paris gentleman to a friend in London. They date the love adventures of a certain Emily Palmer, who uring the Regency of Richelieu was Louis XV's mistress. De Barre' might have been intended to convey that the fory relates to the famous Du Barry, but in reality it had o connection with her and was merely an interesting ccount of an ordinary love adventure. The Monthly Review (1771) regarded the story as ' Another heap of rubbish, wept out of Mons. Vergy's garret. This foreigner, who so npudently thrust himself into the English Grubean bciety, appears determined to fill our booksellers' shops, balls and circulating libraries with lies and obscenity, the nly studies in which he seems ambitious of excelling.' The above-mentioned drawing illustrates a scene in riiich Emily is lying on a settee and trying to repel the advances of Mr. C. According to Pisanus Fraxi, the following three obscene Irawings are also the joint work of George Morland and J. R. Smith: 1. c Mock Husband', representing a Lesbian scene between owo girls. A third girl, fully dressed, is standing behind the settee and applying the rod to the posterior of one of the others. 2. ' The Nobleman's Wife and the Taylor Crazy Tale.' A very stout man vainly trying to become the lover of a woman. 3. ' Female Contest, or, my C . . . 's larger than thine.' Five young women are being examined by a sixth. ' John Raphael Smith is the sole author of the following etchings, executed as mezzotints: L Love scene between youth and girl on a settee. [651]