EditorialUse of Russians after marriage, and before n?ce, According to Russian tradition, after the wedding, women examine the linen cloth to convince themselves of the virginity of the bride. Signed: J. B. le Prince (del.), Aug. de St. Aubin (sculp.), Copperpl...
EditorialCup with a cupid and a woman and the inscription: OFIE DOES NOT GO OF SHIT IN MYN KRANSIE KOMIE, arched foot. Faceted baluster stem with button and air bubble. Bell-shaped chalice with faceted, solid bottom. On the chalice the engraved representation o...
EditorialThe holy virginity (antependium), tapestry tissue antependium with the Virgin and her family., anonymous, Midden-Rijn, c. 1475 - c. 1500, ketting, inslag, tapestry, h 76 cm ? w 183 cm.
EditorialBas-relief of a young woman sacrificing her virginity to the god Priapus. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erot...
EditorialA diagram in the shape of a plant showing the relative merits of virginity, chastity and conjugality. Adam and Eve are at the base. Speculum Virginum. Germany (Hirsau or Freising); 1140-1145. Source: Arundel 44, f.70. Language: Latin.
EditorialSketches of a tiger. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Sketches for an engraving illustrating William Hayley's ballad 'The Elephant' [1802]. A naked man placed in a window above a gateway escapes the crouching tiger. Be...
EditorialTemptation of Adam and Eve. Holkham Bible Picture Book. England; circa 1320-1330. [Whole folio] Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, which is surrounded by battlements, a symbol of virginity. They stand before God, who has his fingers raised in admoniti...
EditorialBas-relief of a young woman sacrificing her virginity to the god Priapus. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erot...
EditorialThe Holy Family in an Enclosed Garden, 1512, Pen and reddish brown ink., 10 9/16 x 7 7/8 in. (26.8 x 19.8 cm), Drawings, Albrecht D?rer (German, Nuremberg 1471?1528 Nuremberg), This drawing is a variation on a popular fifteenth-century theme in which t...
EditorialJapanese wedding ceremony. A monk presides over the marriage in a shrine to the goddess of virginity while musicians play on gongs and koto harp, and the bride's childish ornaments are burnt on a pyre. Handcoloured illustration and copperplate engravin...
EditorialBas-relief of a young woman sacrificing her virginity to the god Priapus. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erot...
EditorialFragment of a poliptych of originally five panels: Annunciation, Drinking the " Bitter Water" (an ordeal over Mary's virginity) and the Flight to Egypt. From the Eastern Mediterranean, second half 6th Polychrome ivory, OA 11149.