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  • An unmarried woman approaching middle age smiles seductively at the viewer as inwardly she considers her future with foreboding. Engraving by G. Kellaway, 1828, after T. Stewardson.
  • A skeleton as a woman wearing a brown and red dress and a black headdress. Oil painting, ca. 1680.
  • A shepherdess receiving amorous approaches from a man under a tree as they are watched by a man from behind. Etching.
  • A Persian prince with his attendants
  • A boy flying in the arms of a siren. Photographic postcard after D. Puech, 191-.
  • A woman consulting an official weeps and then faints, prompting the official to take her privately into his back office. Line process print by SGAP after Albert Guillaume, 1893.
  • A boy flying in the arms of a siren. Photographic postcard after D. Puech, 191-.
  • Potiphar's wife denouncing Joseph to Potiphar. Tempera painting by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 146- (?).
  • Potiphar's wife denouncing Joseph to Potiphar. Tempera painting by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 146- (?).
  • Potiphar's wife denouncing Joseph to Potiphar. Tempera painting by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 146- (?).
  • Potiphar's wife denouncing Joseph to Potiphar. Tempera painting by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, 146- (?).
  • Faust and Marguerite in the garden walking hand-in-hand. Engraving by A. Blanchard III, 1853, after A. Scheffer, 1846.
  • Joseph flees from Potiphar's wife as she attempts to seduce him. Lithograph by Franz Hanfstaengl after Carlo Cignani.
  • Joseph being seduced by Potiphar's wife. Engraving by J. Frey after C. Cignani.
  • Joseph being seduced by Potiphar's wife. Engraving by J. Frey after C. Cignani.
  • A Persian prince with a young woman
  • Three lecherous men gather round a pretty street seller, admiring her rather than her wares. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E. Pigal.
  • Menaka the nymph tempting the yogi, Viswāmitra. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Persian couple sharing a drink
  • Persian couple sitting together
  • A corrupt old man tries to seduce a woman by urging her to take a hypnotic draught in her drink. Coloured lithograph by C. Motte.
  • A corrupt old man tries to seduce a woman by urging her to take a hypnotic draught in her drink. Coloured lithograph by C. Motte.
  • A beautiful young woman looks away coyly while an aged doctor examines her chest. Chromolithograph after A. Faivre.
  • Persian couple copulating
  • Persian couple copulating
  • Persian couple copulating
  • Persian couple copulating
  • Persian couple copulating
  • Persian couple copulating
  • Persian prince with his attendants