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While her mother sleeps, a girl keeps watch on her as her lover on bended knee kisses her hand. Engraving by H.C. Shenton after F.P.Stephanoff.
Stephanoff, Francis Philip, 1788-1860.Date: 1830Reference: 28236i- Pictures
A young woman is met by a Scottish guardsman at a stile outside a cottage while her mother or guardian sleeps at her spinning wheel. Stipple engraving, 1806.
Date: 1806Reference: 2491690i- Pictures
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A man wearing a wig and a cravat, holding the bagpipes and looking towards a woman on his right. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1743, after S. Leclerc.
Leclerc, Sébastien, the younger, 1676-1763.Date: [1743]Reference: 33842i- Pictures
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A young loving couple sit on a sofa holding hands while she coyly holds a fan up to her face. Coloured wood engraving after Rud. Rössler.
Rössler, Rudolf, 1864-1934.Date: December 1894Reference: 28224i- Pictures
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A woman is holding her dying lover; a sword lying at his feet. Aquatint by F. Goya, 1812/1888.
Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828.Date: 1812/1888Reference: 567176i- Pictures
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A woman sitting in a chair playing the hurdy-gurdy and looking towards a man on her left. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1743, after S. Leclerc.
Leclerc, Sébastien, the younger, 1676-1763.Date: [1743]Reference: 33843i- Pictures
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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.
Löfftz, Ludwig von, 1845-1910.Date: [1880]Reference: 32343i- Pictures
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A young lover has been mistaken for a burglar and got shot with pellets. Lithograph.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 42897i- Pictures
A tryst in a temple of Cupid: two women stand in the temple, and one of them is kissed on the hand by her lover. Engraving attributed to C. Bervic, 180-, after a painting attributed to L.R. Trinquesse, 1786.
Trinquesse, Louis Rolland, 1745-approximately 1800.Date: [between 1786 and 1799?]Reference: 2475454i- Pictures
Connocht Moran plays the lute to the daughter of an Ó Conchobhair King and urges her to elope with him. Etching by Charles West Cope, 1844.
Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890.Date: [1844]Reference: 2823109i- Pictures
A young woman with a greyhound on a terrace, setting off for a rendez-vous. Photograph after H. Knöchl, ca. 1875.
Knöchl, Johann W., 1850-1927.Date: [between 1870 and 1879?]Reference: 3087929i- Pictures
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A man and a woman riding on horseback outside Cambridge: the man's horse is flatulent. Etching after H.W. Bunbury.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.Reference: 28510i- Pictures
A musician in Venice is murdered before a tryst with a young woman who approaches the meeting place unaware of his death. Mezzotint by J.C. Bromley, 1836, after J.R. Herbert.
Herbert, John Rogers, 1810-1890.Date: Septr. 1. 1836Reference: 3162951i- Pictures
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A fashionably dressed young man pays a visit to his friend in the Temple, but the friend claims he cannot receive him as has a male visitor, concealing the fact that has a woman in his chambers. Etching, 1803.
Date: Novr.1 1803Reference: 32951i- Pictures
Angelica and Medoro carve their names on a tree, both writing with the same stylus. Engraving by R. Morghen after T. Matteini after L. Ariosto.
Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533.Reference: 2804483i- Pictures
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A woman weeps at her paramour's bed; the doctor puts away his lancet. Coloured lithograph by Joséphine-Clémence Formentin after C. Philipon, ca 1829.
Philipon, Charles, 1800-1862.Date: [c. 1829]Reference: 16558i- Pictures
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A young man (Colas) attaches his bouquet to the spindle used by Rose, as Rose reveals herself from her hiding place. Engraving by J.B.B.Simonet after P.A. Baudouin.
Baudouin, Pierre-Antoine, 1723-1769.Reference: 29962i- Pictures
A young woman and a young man in the reign of King Charles II having a quarrel: they prepare to surrender each other's portrait miniature. Engraving by C. Heath, 1824, after G.S. Newton.
Newton, Gilbert Stuart, 1794-1835.Date: May 15 1827Reference: 3162392i- Pictures
Raphael and a young woman known as La fornarina sitting on a balcony, with Rome in the background. Engraving by L. Stocks, 1842, after A.W. Callcott.
Callcott, Augustus Wall, 1779-1844.Date: 1843Reference: 3064774i- Pictures
Lovers reading a book in a pleasure garden to the accompaniment of music. Etching, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 2846181i- Pictures
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A prince visits his paramour, who is in bed, on a snowy winter's day, while a servant brings in a tray of food: a Genji-inspired triptych. Colour woodcut by Kunichika, 1865.
Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900.Date: 1865Reference: 566201i- Pictures
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King George IV having his gouty foot massaged by his mistress Marchioness of Hertford while his wife Queen Caroline listens in the doorway. Coloured etching, ca. 1820.
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The court oracle: a new miscellany. In which are contained, amongst many other curious Things, the following, viz. I. The secret history of that most celebrated prude Skirrissa; wherein the various Stratagems used by Sir Sidrophel with her Father, and their Intrigues to this Time, are amply set forth. Cum multis aliis. II. The Sequel of Tit for Tat. In a Dialogue between a Country Blackbird and a C- Goldfinch. III. The Wife's Revenge; or the impertinent Cuckold; who on Account of his ill Usage became a Prostitute: With their Proceedings at Law, and Seperation by mutual Consent. IV. The Secret History of Montizeuta: Containing an Account of her Amours; particularly with Crackezuma, a grand Scribe: The Discovery of her indecent Behaviour with him; her comical Adventure with a Gentleman at a Country Village, who enjoy'd her by a Stratagem, when she thought to pass undiscover'd; her extravagant Gestures at the Sight of the Corpse of her Paramour, the Scribe, who died of a loathsome Distemper; and her dressing herself in a Widow's Apparel on Account of his Death. V. An Officer and no Soldier. A Poem. Inscribed to the D-s of B-n and A - le. VI. Verses most humbly inscribed to the Right Hon, the Earl of Scarborough, on his resigning his Post of Master of the Horse to his Majesty. Vii. The History of a Knight and no Gentleman. Inscrib'd to Sir R- F-. Viii. A dialogue between two Jews, concerning the bill depending in Parliament for preventing stockjobbing. To which is added, The fair Jewess triumphant: OR Jacob's Folly in Attempting to Wrestie with an Angel.
Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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The divine avenger: or, the fatal consequences of murder; exemplified in the following tragical relations: I. Of a Nobleman of Burgundy, who falling in Love with a Lady at Church, marries her; and living very happily, his Sister envies them, and contrives their Ruin by fomenting Jealousies betwixt them; which occasions a Duel betwixt him and another Gentleman; which not succeeding to her Wish, she poisons her Sister-in-Law, and then her Brother; for which she is tried, hang'd, burn'd, and her Ashes thrown into the Air. II. Of a Gentleman of Venice, who first by himself, and then by his Friend, sollicits the Love of a Lady of Milan. She falls desperately in Love with, and marries his Friend; which the Gentleman resenting, challenges, fights, and kills the Husband; in Revenge for which she employs two Ruffians to kill him; this being discover'd, she is hang'd, burnt, and her Ashes scatter'd in the Air. III. Of a French Nobleman, who falling in Love with a Farmer's Daughter, debauches her, and then causes her and her Infant to be murder'd, to make Way for his Preferment in Marriage to a Lady of a great Family and Fortune. His Villainy being discover'd, he is broke alive, and his Accomplices suffer the most ignominious Deaths. IV. Of a Gentleman and Lady of Valentia, who entertaining a mutual Love for each other, she to secure him her own, causes his Rival to be murder'd. They are married; but she giving him Cause of Jealousy, he murders her and her Paramour. This occasions a Duel between him and the Brother of her first Lover, in which he treacherously kills him; for which he is tried, confesses the formen Murder, and is executed. V. Of a Venetian, who murdered his Wife because she was old; for which he is tried and convicted on the Evidence of his own Daughter, and at last executed. Embellish'd with several curious copper-plate cuts adapted to the Work.
Date: [1738]