French Erotic prints-Anonymous-18-19th.c.

We recently acquired a small collection of French satirical erotic prints depicting monks (abbé) or priests in compromising acts including dogs mimicking their actions.

1. Plate 26; ‘Le Garde vaut mieux que le pointe.’ (The guard is better than the point.); rare 18th c. etching on hand laid paper, old colouring with a circular watermark.; page size: c.17×25 cm; thin paper at top corners. – 275 euro
2. Plate 1 from a French erotic work showing a monk and a lady of pleasure, with French verse; 19th.c. etching on thick wove paper, handcoloured; page size: c. 18×25 cm. – 95 euro
3. A monk in an  erotic pose.; rare 18th.c. etching with original hand colouring on hand laid paper, with lettering watermark; page size c. 16x 23.5 cm -275 euro

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