Lot 165
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Assorted artistic and erotic boudoir portraits, featuring nudes.
Sale 1136 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
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Mar 27, 2023
Lots Close
Apr 4, 2023
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$400 -
600
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$756
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Assorted artistic and erotic boudoir portraits, featuring nudes.
2 cabinet cards showing couples engaged in erotic sex acts. N.p.: N.p., n.d. 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. photographs on cardstock mounts. -- 11 real photo postcards of nudes and erotica. Approx. 5 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. Printing to versos suggests 2 from Germany and 4 from France. Views include nudes as well as explicit sex acts, including multiple participants. -- 3 printed postcards with female nudes. -- Together, 16 photographs and real photo postcards from the 19th century, condition generally fine.
[With:] Studio full-length portrait of a woman exposing her derriere. N.p.: N.p., n.d. -- The Virgin of the Marsh. CDV of an artwork of a nude woman at the mouth of a sea cave. Portsmouth, NH: Davis Brothers, n.d. -- Untitled CDV after an artwork of a bare-breasted woman. N.p.: N.p., n.d. -- Together, 3 albumen CDVs on cardstock mounts.
[Also with:] Nude Jemez Mountains, N.M. Modern quarter plate daguerreotype outdoor nude. Santa Fe, NM: R. Shlaer, 12 June 1992. Framed. Title and attributions engraved to plate verso. -- 2 artistic female nudes. [Germany?]: Historisch-Wiederherstellung, [late 20th century?]. 5 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. photographic prints on cardstock mounts. Photographer/publisher's stamp to mount versos. -- 6 artistic nudes. N.p.: N.p., [mid 20th century]. 4 1/4 x 6 3/8 in. photographs. -- Outdoor view of a bare-breasted Filipina. [Philippines]: N.p., [ca 1940s]. 3 5/8 x 5 in. (some creasing). -- Together, 10 erotic photographs from the 20th century.
Please note: due to the sensitive nature of the subject matter, several images were not photographed but are available upon request.
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