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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    ustrates in a drastically realistic manner the physical diaustion supervening after the sexual act. The subject j a voluptuous woman who lies exhausted m an rmchair. . , - ^ Perhaps Richard Newton was the originator ol the ight obscene but superb mezzotints which Pisanus Fraxi laces in the period of Rowlandson and Newton: 1 Interior. Love scene between a man and a woman. L kneeling boy is watching the process. He is holding his Lat in one hand and making an amazed gesture with the ther. 2. A young man and a girl under a tree. 3. Coitus a posteriori. 4 Interior. An old man sitting on a settee is caressing a girl leaning back against him. He is supporting her with his eft hand, while his right is resting on her breast. 5. Interior. Man and woman in a state of sexual excite- ment. 6. Love scene between youth and girl in a wood. 7. Love scene between a man and a woman on a settee. 8. Interior. A man is pointing to the ample callipygean charms of a girl with his left hand, and making a gesture of admiration with his right. 9. Coitus a posteriori. There is a curtain falling on the back of the girl. The young man is supposed to represent George IV as Prince of Wales. 10 Bedroom. Love scene between a young man sitting on a chair and a young girl. The artist has caught their expressions of extreme ecstasy in the process of a ' seraphic kiss'. There is a bed and a door in the background. There are also fourteen obscene mezzotints by an un- known artist illustrating Sterne's Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. The series consists of one portrait and thirteen drawings, evidently prepared for a special edition oi [653]