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  • An angry father reproaching his daughter after intercepting a love-letter to her. Mezzotint by J. Ward, 1817, after J. Opie.
  • Entrance to a mosque: a woman dictates a love letter to a man seated at a table, to the right a barber shaves a man. Wood engraving.
  • 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.
  • A British sailor in Zhoushan, China, is charged with entering a house and delivering a love-letter from another sailor to one of the women in the house: they react with consternation. Etching after Robert Cruikshank, 1843.
  • A naked man and woman stand about to kiss with the message in German: 'Protection from love. Let us give AIDS no chance'; an advertisement for safe sex by the Österreichische AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Ogilvy & Mather Medical and Peter Baumann of Hollywood Ges. m.b.H.
  • A naked woman bends over a naked man lying back with the message in German: 'Protection from love. Let us give AIDS no chance'; an advertisement for safe sex by the Österreichische AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Ogilvy & Mather Medical and Peter Baumann of Hollywood Ges. m.b.H.
  • A naked man with shoulder-length blond wavy hair embraces a naked woman with the message in German: 'Protection from love. Let us give AIDS no chance'; an advertisement for safe sex by the Österreichische AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Ogilvy & Mather Medical and Peter Baumann of Hollywood Ges. m.b.H.
  • The back view of a naked man being embraced by a man with shoulder-length blond wavy hair with the message in German: 'Protection from love. Let us give AIDS no chance'; an advertisement for safe sex by the Österreichische AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Ogilvy & Mather Medical and Peter Baumann of Hollywood Ges. m.b.H.
  • A naked woman lying forward to lean on a man's knees as he bends over to lie on her wrapping his arms around her; with the message in German: 'Protection from love. Let us give AIDS no chance'; an advertisement for safe sex by the [Österreichische] AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Ogilvy & Mather Medical and Peter Baumann of Hollywood Ges. m.b.H.
  • A naked man leaning back on his arms with his eyes closed as another naked man leans into him while nestling his head in his neck; with the message in German: 'Protection from love. Let us give AIDS no chance'; an advertisement for safe sex by the Österreichische AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Ogilvy & Mather Medical and Peter Baumann of Hollywood Ges. m.b.H.
  • A young woman at home receiving a message from an old woman who is visiting her. Lithograph by Fr. Hanfstaengl, 1838, after F. van Mieris.
  • A girl stands in front of her grandmother who is holding a letter which she is questioning the girl about. Engraving by F. Bacon after E.C. Wood.
  • A baffled doctor taking the pulse of a love-sick young woman, her maid slips a billet-doux secretly into her hand. Coloured lithograph.
  • A red rose on the floor with a broken pot and spilt liquid representing a broken relationship and unfaithfulness; German version of a series of 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A red rose on the floor with a broken pot and spilt liquid representing a broken relationship and unfaithfulness; Italian version of a series of 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A married woman attending a health resort as a cover for a love-affair does not drink the curative water but pours it back into the basin of a fountain. Colour lithograph, 1914.
  • Peter Love posing nude in drag.
  • Peter Love posing nude in drag.
  • A young couple sit next to a well and he is giving her a bunch of flowers. Coloured lithograph.
  • An old man is sitting at a table counting his money as a young couple look at one another over his head. Wood engraving by M. Klinkicht after L. Löfftz.