Sloane Street: An Erotic Edwardian Tale

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A couple of incidents have come down to us--romping about with servant maids in the basement of the school, a student strike against the poor food, and the time Thomas "once gave great offense by carrying a pea-shooter into the life academy, and while old Moser was adjusting the female model, and had just directed her contour, Rowlandson let fly a pea, which, making her start, she threw herself entirely out of position, and interrupted the gravity of the study for the whole evening. Here the Empress of Russia indulges her own unique method of reviewing her troop of crack Hussars, whom she employed as bodyguards.

Social anxieties over the sexuality and independence of women produced the image of the fallen woman. The scene is set, with the already partially stripped damsel being led down into the dungeon, manacled and led by a guard with a cat-o'-nine-tails. These works were frequently bold, sometimes even coarse--but they could also be surprisingly delicate.Men were thought to be victims of the female seductress, and were the primary spectators and consumers of female erotica. Combined with elements of English xenophobia, it was a pet pastime for Rowlandson's contemporaries to mock Cham­bers, especially in his layout of the Royal Gardens at Kew and in Somerset House, used for exhibitions by the Royal Academy.

This exceptional antique George V sterling silver and enamel cigarette case has a plain square form with rounded corners. With all his academic and professional training, and despite his attitides toward foreign affairs in France and America, Rowlandson was still genuinely an artist of the people. Right: SYMPTOMS OF SANCTITY - Another cloister scene, but here the monk is patterned after Ghirlandaio's familiar portrait of a Florentine merchant and his grandson—the pose of an old man is almost identical, but the young Italian boy has been transformed into an object of entirely different kinds of affection. Eroticizing female and male bodies: a linguistic investigation of a pornographic novel from the Victorian magazine The Pearl".The revenge, of course, is for the cuckolded husband who has spent some suffocating moments waiting for the opportunity to catch his wife and her lover in flagrante delicto. Heterosexual sex between married couples became the only form of sex socially and morally permissible. In any case it is easier for us to see this more overt acceptance of sensuality and sexuality—so charac­teristic of pre-Victorian England—now that we have that later period as historical perspective. The finest guide to erotic postcards, printed on heavy, coated paper which reproduces the color and fine detail of the cards. In addition to various Greco-Roman elements, such as the vase with the classic dolphin, and the scene at its base which may represent the rape of the Sabine women, there is the interesting Egyptian figure be­hind the girl's head.

This piece dates back from 1791; and from the 1790s to the end of his career, Rowlandson drew many illustrations for works by late eighteenth century novelists, in particular Smollett and Henry Fielding. The primary subject may have been derived from the myth of Pygmalion, since there is a sculptor's mallet and other tools at the foot of the bed. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. This hallmarked nude cigarette case is fitted with a hallmarked push fit catch, which when released reveals two hinged compartments. The latter's Tom Jones was also illustrated in 1791, and Rowlandson's prints were popular enough to have been republished in 1805.

Each object in our assortment of antique erotica bearing Victorian, Art Nouveau or Arts and Crafts hallmarks is very popular.