Thursday, April 15, 2010

Bookplate... the witch swims!





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Illustration from
Montague Summers's The Discovery
of Witches: A Study of Master Mat-
thew Hopkins. 1928


Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The Lizard Phallus...erotica watercolour 1870





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anonymous, inspired by Poitevin 1870




 from an interesting collection of erotica artworks at La Galerie Libertine

Alfred Proessdorf... erotica 1920





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The Indiscreet Jewels (French: Les bijoux indiscrets) is the first novel by Denis Diderot, published anonymously in 1748. It is an allegory that portrays Louis XV as the sultan Mangogul of the Congo who owns a magic ring that makes women's genitals ("jewels") talk.