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Kujibiki, Isoda Koryūsai - Public domain drawing

Print shows five courtesans attending to two men to determine who will serve each client; screen painting in the background shows a heron flying above waves. Title and other descriptive information compiled by ... More

Kira Yoshinaka - Shodan, print by Utamaro Kitagawa, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows actors in the roles of Moronō (Kira Yoshinaka) propositioning Lady Kaoyo, Enya's wife, and Wakasanosuke (a noble offended by Moronō's behavior). Title and other descriptive information compiled by N... More

Fugu no bijin to kurage no tomo, Shigenobu Yanagawa

Print shows a courtesan followed by a suitor offering her a gift. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Shikishi Nishikie Surimono... More

Giovanni in London or Plucking chickens before they are full feathered...

Print shows opera singer, actress, and theater producer Madame Vestris, also known as Lucia Elizabeth Mathews or Lucia Elizabetta Bartolozzi, dressed in breeches, seated between two lascivious young men in a ca... More

[Humorous picture showing a Chinese man, kneeling, speaking to a woman...

Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Includes extensive Japanese text. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nihon ban... More

The love affairs of Patricia - the inevitable

Photographs illustrating story by Lilian Quiller-Couch show a woman and man standing in front of a fountain and sitting at a restaurant. Illus. in: Saturday Evening Post, v. 174, no. 12 (1901 September 21), pp. 8-9.

Engawa no wakai danjo, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Chuban Nishikie. Signed Suzuki Harunobu. Modern Reproduction, but apparently NOT ba... More

The harlots nurse, or modern procuress / Boitard sculpt., British Cart...

Print shows an interior view of a room in which a tightly corsetted courtesan admires herself in a mirror as her maid, or procuress, views her from behind. This scene is mirrored by a cat toying with a mouse un... More

Tako age suru danjo - Public domain drawing

Print shows a young man holding a string attached to a kite held by a young woman standing on a veranda above him. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists... More

The guitar / D.G. Johnson, sc. - Engraving, Public domain image

Print shows a woman playing guitar as a man flirts with her. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead], page 2. Library of Congress copy i... More

The two paths--What will the girl become?

Image of a seven year old white girl, flanked by two columns of illustrations showing on left: the girl reading bad literature, flirting, drinking with men, and as an outcast, and on right: the girl studying, i... More

Spurring him on / Ehrhart. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a well-dressed couple discussing the amount of money a jockey earned the previous racing season; the woman suggests that since her husband is much larger than the jockey, then he should be ab... More

You never can tell A Selig farce comedy.

Motion picture poster for "You Never can Tell" shows two men dressed as gladiators in front of a motion picture camera. In the lower left is an insert for "Who Got Stung" showing a group of women attacking a g... More

Who does not love wine, wife & song, will be a fool for his lifelong! ...

Print shows a man and a woman in an embrace, the man holding a glass of wine and a sheet of music. 5664 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1873 by Kimmel & Voigt. Original sketch by W. Voigt.

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Sanogawa ichimatsu to segawa kikunojō no aiaigasa

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Benizuri-e. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Moronobu Hishikawa - [Two lovers embracing in front of a painted scree...

Print shows a young man sitting on the floor, embracing a young woman straddling him. Also attributed to: Sugimura Jihei, ca. 169-. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (L... More

Quoi! pas même la Main? / Wateau inv. ; Fessard Sculp.

What! Not even the hand? After Louis Watteau(?). Béraldi, no. 28.

High-change in Bond Street, - ou- la Politesse du Grande Monde / Js. G...

Fashionably dressed pedestrians on Bond Street. In the foreground, five men crowd a woman and girl off the sidewalk as they leer at them. The women, seen from the back, are oddly dressed. In the background, thr... More

Old Judge cigarettes - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Goodwin & Co., advertiser. Category designation on... More

Getting up steam - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Bruns, William, copyright claimant. Blind stamp on... More

Interior scene depicting a woman eavesdropping

46 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Ekwall, Knut, artist... More

Fleisher Brothers, Philadelphia. Design No. 2 Men and women on a ship'...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. E. B. Fleisher Brothers, copyright claimant. Categ... More

Love-lorn lyrics of a lonesome lad / Gordon Ross.

Illustration shows a lonely man with arms crossed and chin on his chest, sitting in a chair next to a small table with a shelf of books, his dog at his feet, and on the table a tobacco pipe billowing smoke show... More

[A Russian general, shaking with fear, telephones the Czar(?) who is a...

The love affairs of Patricia - the inevitable

Toyonobu Ishikawa - [Passing a love letter]

Print shows a young man discretely passing a love letter from beneath the folds of his kimono. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Miss L--n [and] the martial lover

Cameo portraits of a young woman, Miss L--n (who became his mistress) and Charles Stanhope, Earl Harrington, who is depicted wearing a military uniform; in ovals with ribbons at top. Illus. in: The town and co... More

The amiable Miss W-bb [and] the intrepid partizan

Cameo portraits of Miss W-bb and Banastre Tarleton; in ovals with ribbons at top. Illus. in: The town and country magazine, or, Universal repository of knowledge, instruction, and entertainment. London : Print... More

Yatsushi jūnidan zoushi ushiwaka jōrurihime - Torii Kiyonaga

Print shows four women standing on a porch, one may be ringing a bell, and a man playing a flute, standing in front of the porch; from the tale of Jūnidan Zoushi and Ushiwaka. Title and other descriptive inform... More

The little innocents - Print, Library of Congress collection

13375 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Cram, George F., copy... More

Broadhead Worsted Mills / J. Ottmann, Lith., Puck Building, N.Y.

Stock poster for woolens or tailors, showing a woman in riding clothes placing a letter in the hollow of a tree; a sign nailed to the tree is blank for later printing, and in the distance is the Broadhead Worst... More

Compliments of H. Clausen & Son Brewing Co., New York

32990 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Knapp & Co., lithogra... More

"Forgiven" - Print, Library of Congress collection

6808 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Knapp Co., copyright c... More

General Kuropatkin & his staff joyfully leaving St. Petersburg for the...

Print shows the Russian general A.N. Kuropatkin parting with difficulty from two grief-stricken women while his staff waits in the background. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo prin... More

Caricature, Mi hombre; and Mi noche triste, public domain cartoon imag...

This sheet consists of two broadsides (número 3 on left and número 4 on right) of the penny press "Edición especial." Número 3 has a small masthead image of two cherubs in a scroll medallion. The text "My man" ... More

A Sunday afternoon "pick-up" at Sandy Beach. Girls about 15. See 4184....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a picnic in the park, outdoor activity, leisure time, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"A touch of brimstone Hilarious comedy : Back stage life.

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "A Touch of Brimstone" at the Columbia, showing two women and a man.

It's incredible what powerful men think they can get away with There's...

Cartoon drawing shows two women at a bar talking to a male bartender.

The web of desire, Movie Poster

Crim. con., British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

Cartoon print showing a woman who has taken an amorous couple by surprise, and says, "Get out of my house, you hussey, I hired you to do your own business, not mine." Criminal conversation is a legal term for a... More

The age of brass: Or the triumphs of woman's rights

Print shows women lining up at a ballot box. A man, on the far right, is holding a baby at the end of the line. Entered according to Act of Congress AD. 1869, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's office of the Di... More

Moronobu Hishikawa - [Lovers in an autumn meadow]

Print shows a young man and a young woman embracing in a meadow. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

A poor man loaded with mischief, or matrimon[y] / drawn by Experience ...

Print shows a man chained to wedlock carrying a woman on his back, her breasts exposed, she holds a cup labeled "gin" and toasts "My Bucks Health", and according to a pig in a pen, "She is as Drunk as David's S... More

Yatsushi kusazuribiki. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a man sitting on the floor clutching a long piece of cloth held by the woman standing next to him; she has her hand on a hairpin, perhaps getting ready to remove it. A screen painting behind the wom... More

Bachelors fare, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

Print shows a man, seated at a table, embracing and kissing a woman, around the table are seated three women, a fourth, carrying a tankard of beer, enters through a door on the right; on the table are bread and... More

John Bull in Paris; or, English guineas for French pleasure!

Print shows John Bull standing between two French women offering them a bag of guineas.

Shinpan ukie shin yoshiwara ōmonuchi no zu

Print shows a bird's-eye view of men and women passing through the gate between buildings in the New Yoshiwara. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in... More

Cheerleader and football player sitting on giant football with Chicago...

G16965 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Christy, F. Earl... More

The soph and the widow - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congre...

G72000 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Ward, R. P., artist.... More

Smoke and chew Sensation cut plug

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Lorillard (P.) & Co., advertiser. Geo. S. Harris &... More

Saint Catharine and St. George - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Cartoon shows Potemkin addressing a man identified as "Sweden" with his back to Catherine II as she suggestively mounts St. George who is dressed as a knight representing George III.

La norteña; Los sucesos de la huelga; Mi hombre; y Mi noche triste

Sheet consists of four broadsides (número 2 on lower left and número 1 on lower right; número 4 on upper left and número 3 on upper right) of the penny press "Edición especial." Número 2 has a small masthead il... More

La norteña; Los sucesos de la huelga; Mi hombre; y Mi noche triste

The girl who gave him the cold shoulder / John Held, Jr.

Cover of Life magazine showing sunburned woman pulling down shoulder strap of her beach blouse as man smiles. Caption label from exhibit "Monstrous Craws...": The jaunty spirit of the Jazz Age came to life in t... More

Naniwa no bessō akebono no zu - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print, Ukiyo-e, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Man and woman riding in horse-drawn cart]

Drawing shows a man and a woman riding in a small horse-drawn cart, looking at each other. The scene may be in Norway. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, after the death of ... More

The death of Tippoo or Besieging the haram!!!, British Cartoon Print

Several British officers, "Harrah my Honey now for the Black Joke" and "Cheer up my girls we'll supply his place well", take liberties with the women in the harem of Tipu Sultan after his death during the fight... More

Dai nijūichi zu, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a woman using a long (opium?) pipe to beat a man who has been spying on her. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the seri... More

Harris's list; or, Cupid's London directory / R. Newton del. ; etch'd ...

Print shows a man with a copy of "Harris's list" open to the page for "Miss Love" standing in front of Miss Love's establishment; there is a young woman standing at the door, one leaning out a first floor windo... More

The way to keep him, or the female flagellants attacking the platonic ...

Print shows a smiling man, "platonic love", on one knee as three women beat him with whips made of bulrushes(?); on the wall in the background are two portraits, "The Maid of Drury" and "The Maid of the Oaks." ... More

[A lover's quarrel] - Public domain drawing

Print shows a man, scowling, with a shoulder pole and a basket full of jars and bowls, standing in front of a woman with a smug look on her face. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints a... More

Shigemasa Kitao - Izumi Shikibu - Yatsushi koshikibu no naishi

Print shows the poet Izumi Shikibu and a young man, possibly Tachibana no Michisada, Prince Tametaka, or Prince Atsumichi, or possibly Shikibu and her daughter Koshikibu no Naishi. Title and other descriptive i... More

Fujin tomarikyaku no zu - Public domain drawing

Print shows five women and one man; three of the women are seated inside tent-like mosquito netting, grooming and exposing their breasts, the other two women and the man stand outside the netting. Title and oth... More

Miuraya komurasaki shirai gonpachi - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Jitsukurabe iro no minakami : True comparisons of erotic wellsprings. Format: vertica... More

An awkward predicament (Icelandic custom)

Drawing shows a woman, standing, pulling off a seated man's trousers. The woman appears to look at the man with a knowning eye, while the man seems surprised at her actions. Taylor visited Iceland in 1862, perh... More

Izumi Shikibu - Sanjūichi seishōnagon sanjūni koshikibu no naishi

Print shows (top half) Sei Shōnagon raising or lowering a blind, and (bottom half) Koshikibu no Naishi (or Izumi Shikibu) touching the hem of a man's clothing, he appears startled or angered, several women are ... More

Twin children - Print, Library of Congress collection

18276 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Category designation ... More

A bunch of spring sprouts / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with, at center, a young woman asking Cupid about his flower garden where all the blossoms has male and female faces, includes verse; also, six vignettes showing scenes fro... More

His father's money / CH [monogram]., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows a young rake beneath a cloud of past exploits, smoking, and spilling a glass of alcohol, in the presence of a young woman fashionably dressed in red. An overturned chair and empty champagne b... More

Anything to oblige / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan as Romeo, hanging off a balcony, speaking to an old woman labeled "Democrary" as Juliet, with "Nurse Grover" Cleveland standing behind her. The full moon in the upper l... More

"Next semester, I was thinking of taking 'How to avoid rape,' but the ...

Cartoon drawing shows two female students in a dorm room. One of the students explains why she is not able to take a class on how to avoid being raped.

Saint Catharine and St. George - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Cartoon shows Potemkin addressing a man identified as "Sweden" with his back to Catherine II as she suggestively mounts St. George who is dressed as a knight representing George III.

Naniwa no bessō akebono no zu - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Sanogawa ichimatsu to segawa kikunojō no aiaigasa

Crim. con., British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

The age of iron: Man as he expects to be

Print shows a husband sitting by a child in a cradle, sewing, as a male servant does laundry. A well-dressed woman prepares to get into a carriage driven by another woman. Entered according to Act of Congress... More

Flagellation / L'Agneau inv. ; June sc., British Cartoon Print

Print shows a man stepping through a door on the left to witness a woman with a handful of birch whipping the exposed buttocks of an elderly gentleman who appears to drive much pleasure from the punishment he i... More

The humours of Belvoir Castle, or the morning after / Woodward del. ; ...

Print shows a number of encounters, in two panels, between men and women either off to bed or awakened to the horrors of the night before: the first, an old man on the arm of an old woman, says, "Och! Long life... More

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Kaki mogi[tori?] - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a young man holding a young woman on his shoulders as she reaches to pick persimmons from a branch above them. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spe... More

[Makura ehon no iichibu] - Public domain drawing

Print shows a man reclining. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Overpainted sheet from one of Utamaro's erotic books. Forms part of: Japa... More

Gojū kogō no tsubone gojūni tomoegozen

Print shows (top half) Kogō no Tsubone, the emperor's mistress, lying on the floor, playing a biwa while a man on horseback, Nakakuni, a messenger for the emperor, in the background is watching through the open... More

Out in Salt Lake City / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows two Mormon elders discussing another Mormon who has been found guilty of bigamy. Caption: Elder Heaperholmes He has been tried by the church and found guilty of bigamy. / Elder Holikuss Gu... More

Puck Easter 1907 / L.M. Glackens., Puck magazine cover

Illustration shows a large mean-looking hen wearing a large black bonnet, standing over her brood, fully mature men and women hatching from eggs who seem intent on meeting each other. Illus. in: Puck, v. 61, n... More

Pick-up at Merry-go-round. Girls are 14-16 -- short dresses. See 4184....

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

La norteña; Los sucesos de la huelga; Mi hombre; y Mi noche triste

John Bull satisfied! - Public domain portrait drawing

A pot-bellied John Bull with one arm around a heavyset trollope in a long dress with pink stripes and pink dots on the sleeves, who stands with her arms folded. With his other arm, John Bull reaches over to ho... More

Naniwa no bessō akebono no zu - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Humorous picture showing a Chinese man, kneeling, speaking to a woman...

[A Russian general, shaking with fear, telephones the Czar(?) who is a...

The general out-generalled, or, first come, first served, British Cart...

Wellington demands attention outside a house, while Duke of Argyll, inside with Harriette Wilson, pretends not to recognize him. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Migi - Public domain drawing

Print shows a man and a woman, wearing geta, walking beneath an umbrella next to a blossoming tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Fr... More

Futon no naka no yūjo to kyaku - Public domain drawing

Print shows a screen enclosing a man with a courtesan on a bed. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: horizontal Chuban Nishikie. ... More

Shakespeare - Troilus & Cressida, act v, scene ii / painted by Angelic...

William Shakespeare books and illustrations Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kawarazaki gonjūrō [to] ichikawa kohanji - Ukiyo e print

Print shows actors Kawarazaki Gonjūrō and Ichikawa Kohanji portraying the roles of a man seated on a bench, possibly in a tearoom, and a woman looking at him through an opening behind the bench. Title and other... More

Love's barrier - Print, Library of Congress collection

38501 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Hardy, Heywood, artis... More

A game of chess - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Man and woman holding hands over chess board. H70168 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4729. "The Universal Photo Art Co."

Army & navy - Print, Library of Congress collection

G10761 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Campbell, Metzger & ... More

Aroused by the cries of the fair maid and lover, the players laughed t...

Golfer, seeming to be in pain, seated on ground, woman standing nearby with shocked look on her face. H87829 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12381-(4).

On vengeance bent, the wrathful lover started, while Fannie hid her fa...

Woman brooding as man swings golf club at two men in background.

Washington in headquarters at Newburgh, after the close of the America...

F70654 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Browncombe, Jennie, ... More

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