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  • Actors in role: a young lover/rebel Shirai Gompachi reading a love letter while being led along by a courtesan's child attendant. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1856.
  • Courtesan Mori Murasaki of the brothel Kimpei Daikoku in the New Yoshiwara (licensed quarters), slides open a screen and looks at her child attendant. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1870.
  • A young woman helping another with her toilet while an old woman prays. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • A young woman helping another with her toilet while an old woman prays. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • An Indian man selling alcohol to a couple. Gouache drawing.
  • An Indian man selling alcohol to a couple. Gouache drawing.
  • Court of Yama, God of Death. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Apsara with pet deer. Watercolour drawing.
  • Venus [Aphrodite], or the Farnese Flora. Engraving by F. Piranesi, 1782, after T. Piroli.
  • Phyllis Johnson, a prostitute with her name and price. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar, 180- (?).
  • Meegan, a sex worker and her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.
  • Phyllis Johnson, a prostitute with her name and price. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar, 180- (?).
  • A prostitute with her name and charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar, 180- (?).
  • A prostitute with her name and charges. Etchings by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar, 180- (?).
  • A prostitute with her name and charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar, 180- (?).
  • A prostitute with her name and charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar, 180- (?).
  • A prostitute with her name and charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar, 180- (?).
  • Cissy, a sex worker and her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.
  • Elia, a sex worker and her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.
  • Luci, a sex worker and her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.
  • Betsy, a sex worker with her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.
  • Saint Mary Magdalen anoints Christ's feet at the meal of Simon the Pharisee. Etching by F.A. Ludy after J.F. Overbeck.
  • Illustration to a proverb: the philandering Babu and the musk rat at a party. Watercolour drawing, c. 1870.
  • Foster and Ninon in character, having a conversation. Photographic postcard, 192- (?).
  • Foster and Ninon in character, having a conversation. Photographic postcard, 192- (?).
  • Five elderly ladies caricatured as young women performing a sacrifice in a classical tableau. Etching by J. Gillray, 1787.