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Lot 23*

EROTICA
Album devoted to flagellation, spanking, and birching, [1920s]

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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EROTICA

Album devoted to flagellation, spanking, and birching, approximately 55 original pen, ink and watercolour illustrations (largest approximately 190 x 180mm.), 5 pencil drawings, 11 original photographs or photo postcards, and numerous cuttings from magazines, papers etc., mounted on approximately 70 leaves recto and verso, contemporary cloth, worn, 4to, [1920s]

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An album of pen, ink and watercolour drawings of flagellation scenes, the majority involving women with women (one series depicting the same scene from the viewpoint of the "1. the spectator 2. the agent, and 3. the victim").

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