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A courtesan sees herself reflected in the mirror as a skeleton: two demons look on. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoshi, 1870s.
Taiso, Yoshitoshi, 1839-1892.Date: [between 1870 and 1879]Reference: 37767i- Pictures
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A Mughal courtesan or member of a royal family looking out of a window: three quarter profile. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 579301i- Pictures
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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.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: Month 11, 1856Reference: 35859i- Pictures
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A Mughal courtesan or member of a Mughal royal family looking at a parrot perched on her hand. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 579302i- Pictures
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A child attendant for a courtesan in a brothel holds a western watch and looks towards the client. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1870.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.Date: 1870Reference: 36889i- Pictures
Three Venetian people wearing masks: a grandee, a courtesan, and a zany servant playing the lute. Engraving by J. Goltzius, 1581, after J.J. Boissard.
Boissard, Jean Jacques, 1528-1602.Date: [1581]Reference: 3006457i- Pictures
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A tayu (elite courtesan) on parade with her two kamuro (child attendants): a male attendant shields them with a parasol. Colour woodcut, ca. 1850 (?).
Date: 1850? (?)]Reference: 565610i- Pictures
Actors as guests at an inn looking into the central courtyard, where a female role actor plays a low-ranking courtesan. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1866.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.Date: 1866Reference: 35666i- Pictures
Actors as guests at an inn looking into the central courtyard, where a female role actor plays a low-ranking courtesan. Colour woodcut by Kunisada II, 1866.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.Date: 1866Reference: 35660i- Pictures
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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.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880.Date: 1870Reference: 36886i- Pictures
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An Indian man selling alcohol to a couple. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 29036i- Pictures
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Court of Yama, God of Death. Coloured transfer lithograph.
Reference: 26071i- Pictures
A curtain brothel in Naka no chō, Yoshiwara. Colour woodcut by Kuninao, 1810s.
Utagawa, Kuninao, 1793-1854.Date: [between 1810 and 1819]Reference: 37862i- Pictures
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Apsara with pet deer. Watercolour drawing.
Reference: 26746i- Books
Harlots, whores & hackabouts : a history of sex for sale / Kate Lister.
Lister, Kate, 1981-Date: 2021- Books
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Het Net Der Wellustigheyt. Ontdeckende De valsche practijcken en lose listigheden der hedensdaegse Courtesanen, of ligtveerdige Hof-poppen, en andere snoode Hoeren; waer in sy vanghen veele treffelicke Hoffjonkers en andere kloecke Stantspersonen.-fOvergheset uyt het Spaens in 't Nederduyts, door I. de L. Amsterdammer
AnonDate: 1646- Books
Amatory pleasures : explorations in eighteenth-century sexual culture / Julie Peakman.
Peakman, Julie, 1957-Date: 2016- Pictures
The legs of Princess Diana as an advertisement for a prostitute. Collage by Tom Cook, 1994.
Cook, Tom, 1937-2016.Date: [1994]Reference: 2148895i- Books
Libertine London : sex in the eighteenth-century metropolis / Julie Peakman.
Peakman, Julie, 1957-Date: 2024- Pictures
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Venus [Aphrodite], or the Farnese Flora. Engraving by F. Piranesi, 1782, after T. Piroli.
Piroli, Tommaso, approximately 1752-1824.Date: 1782Reference: 11585i- Pictures
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A prostitute with her name and charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar, 180- (?).
Date: [between 1800 and 1809?]Reference: 27944iPart of: Portraits of celebrated courtezans: from the original copper plates engraved by W. Hollar in the reign of Charles the second.- Pictures
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Phyllis Johnson, a prostitute with her name and price. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar, 180- (?).
Date: [between 1800 and 1809?]Reference: 27941iPart of: Portraits of celebrated courtezans: from the original copper plates engraved by W. Hollar in the reign of Charles the second.- Pictures
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A prostitute with her name and charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar, 180- (?).
Date: [between 1800 and 1809?]Reference: 27945iPart of: Portraits of celebrated courtezans: from the original copper plates engraved by W. Hollar in the reign of Charles the second.- Pictures
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Meegan, a sex worker and her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.
Date: [between 1800 and 1809?]Reference: 27937iPart of: Portraits of celebrated courtezans: from the original copper plates engraved by W. Hollar in the reign of Charles the second.- Pictures
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A prostitute with her name and charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar, 180- (?).
Date: [between 1800 and 1809?]Reference: 27939iPart of: Portraits of celebrated courtezans: from the original copper plates engraved by W. Hollar in the reign of Charles the second.