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Thomas Rowlandson, Six Stages of Mending a Face (29^th May 1792).

c/o http://georgianbawdyhouse.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/six-stages-of-mending-a-face-1792/

Thomas Rowlandson, The Breaking Up of the Blue Stocking Club (c1815).

commodity: “The private parts of a modest woman, and the public parts of a prostitute.”

—Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue(1785); sig. F2r.

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Marlene Dietrich and Amelia Earhart

Whatthewhat?

(via wear-the-cheese)

Quinten Massy (1465-1530), ‘An Old Woman’ (aka ‘The Ugly Duchess’). c.1525-1530.

Note the detailed wrinkling of her breasts, care of a too tightly-laced corset.

Gertrude Kasebier, ‘Portrait (Miss. N.)’. 1902.

“Tameing a Shrew; or, Petruchio’s Patent Family Bedstead, Gags & Thumscrews” (1815)

Isaac Cruickshank. Indecency. 1799.

James Gillray(?), Squire Thomas Just Arriv’d. Touch me not! I’m still a Maid.

Published 18 November 1778.

A virginal, country-bumpkin squire is coerced into a brothel (promising ‘Kind and Tender Usage’) by over-zealous prostitutes.

Rigging for a Cruise. Mezzotint, c.1780.

A bawd grins at the viewer as she prepares a prostitute to go out ‘cruising’ for customers.