AN ALBUM OF EROTIC WATERCOLOURS, painted on card, England, mid-19th century.
AN ALBUM OF EROTIC WATERCOLOURS, painted on card, England, mid-19th century. Folio (240 x 181 mm). 34 watercolours, many captioned, depicting a variety of playful, witty and fantastical scenes. (Marginal spotting throughout.) 19th-century black half roan binding (edges rubbed and scuffed). An eclectic album of erotic and tongue-in-cheek scenes unified by a certain jovial light-heartedness. There are different artists at work, but their inspiration can evidently be found in the satirical caricatures of James Gillray (1756-1815) and Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). The vignettes range from the solitary erect man tugging away in resigned desperation in 'It's better than nothing at all' to the phallus-headed ostrich chasing the naked large-bosomed native in 'The Bird o' Freedom'; the fat man standing before the mirror in 'Though lost to sight, to memory dear' and the Lilliputians clambering over Gulliver's gargantuan member in an unexpected depiction of Gulliver's travels.
AN ALBUM OF EROTIC WATERCOLOURS, painted on card, England, mid-19th century.
AN ALBUM OF EROTIC WATERCOLOURS, painted on card, England, mid-19th century. Folio (240 x 181 mm). 34 watercolours, many captioned, depicting a variety of playful, witty and fantastical scenes. (Marginal spotting throughout.) 19th-century black half roan binding (edges rubbed and scuffed). An eclectic album of erotic and tongue-in-cheek scenes unified by a certain jovial light-heartedness. There are different artists at work, but their inspiration can evidently be found in the satirical caricatures of James Gillray (1756-1815) and Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). The vignettes range from the solitary erect man tugging away in resigned desperation in 'It's better than nothing at all' to the phallus-headed ostrich chasing the naked large-bosomed native in 'The Bird o' Freedom'; the fat man standing before the mirror in 'Though lost to sight, to memory dear' and the Lilliputians clambering over Gulliver's gargantuan member in an unexpected depiction of Gulliver's travels.
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