relations between the sexes

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

Futon no ue no sinzou to sore o nagameru yūjo

Print shows a courtesan watching a young female student in bed with a client. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: horizontal Chu... 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

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).

Kiyonobu Torii - [Two lovers under an umbrella]

Print shows a man and a woman, full-length, walking beneath an umbrella. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[Reading a love letter], Kiyomasu Torii

Print shows a young woman reading a love letter. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (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

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

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 betrothal ceremony] 17th century - Ukiyo e print

Print shows an interior scene with a man entering on the right outside a room with several women; on the left shows a similarly dressed man addressing a woman behind a screen.

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

[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

Johann Georg Bergmüller - Complexio Phlegmatica. Book illustration fro...

Allegorical print from Holzer's "Four Temperaments" illustrating "impassivity." Complexio Phlegmatica. LeBlanc, no. 7.

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

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

Etienne Fessard - Un baiser, ou ta rose

A kiss or your rose. Béraldi, no. 28. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Two lovers in a boat] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a man and a woman in a boat; the man is holding a small drum and appears to be serenading the woman beneath the moon.

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

Whipping John of Islington, British Cartoon Print

Print shows an interior view of a room in which a man holds a bare-bottomed woman with a pained look on her face on his back as another woman holds up the woman's dress and points to her naked backside; a man, ... More

Toyonobu Ishikawa - [Two musicians seated on a bench, wearing geta]

Print shows a man and a woman sitting on a bench, playing a shamisen. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

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

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

Kiyohiro Torii - [The harmonic couple] - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a man and a woman sitting on a bench, playing a flute, beneath a blossoming tree. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Fūryū yastushi hagoromo - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman (possibly the Tennin, an aerial spirit or celestial dancer) standing on a man in order to remove her feather-mantle (hagoromo or heavenly kimono) which is hanging on the branches of a tree; ... More

Ichikawa komazō no sano no genzaemon segawa kikunojō no keisei tamagik...

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Komazō as Sanno no Genzaemon holding an umbrella and walking with the courtesan Tamagiku, portrayed by the actor Segawa Kikunojō. Title and other descriptive information compiled ... More

Kudgello collecting materials to improve our morals

Print shows a man "Kudgello" using tongs to remove printed material, such as "Essay on Woman", from the toilet pit in an outhouse; on the floor a small pile of "materials" collected includes, "Dialogue ... Marr... 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

A New Years game, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a woman standing at the foot of a ladder leaning against a fence, as a young man, possibly her lover, climbs down the ladder. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawi... 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

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

Kisaragi, Isoda Koryūsai - Public domain drawing

Print shows a man and woman at a low table in a room with open window and view of the landscape; the woman is resting her head on her arms on the table. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichi... More

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

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

Shinagawa yūsho no enseki - Public domain drawing

Print shows five courtesans attending to the needs of a male client; one woman is playing a shamisen, another is preparing a pipe for smoking. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spo... More

Miss V-gh-n [and] the American hero

Print shows cameo portraits of an American woman, Miss Vaughan and William Howe. Illus. in: The town and country magazine, or, Universal repository of knowledge, instruction, and entertainment. London : Printe... More

Kayoi komachi, Shunsh Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a man, possibly Fukakusa no Shosho, sleeping while leaning on the shaft of a horse-drawn wagon as Kayoi Komachi peers from behind a curtain on the wagon, which bears the traditional floral design as... More

Miss Sp-c-r [and] the pliant premier

Cameo portraits of Charlotte Spencer and Frederick North; in ovals with ribbons at top.

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

[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

The subtle seducer [and] the American financier

Cameo portraits of a young woman and Richard Price; in ovals with ribbons at top. Illus. in: The town and country magazine, or, Universal repository of knowledge, instruction, and entertainment. London : Print... 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

Three weeks after marriage, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a man standing on the left offering portraits of "new passions" to George, Prince of Wales, who is seated on a sofa beneath portraits of "The Perdita" and "The Armstead"; the man tells George that "... 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

The fair American [and] Old Nauticus

Print shows cameo portraits of an American widow and an old naval officer thought to be Lord Richard Howe. Illus. in: The town and country magazine, or, Universal repository of knowledge, instruction, and ente... 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

Kengyū shokujo, Shun Ei Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman, Orihime, the weaver princess, standing next to a loom and a man, Kengyuu, the cow-herder, standing next to an ox, both on clouds separated by a gap, with the top of a building visible throu... More

Tippies of 1796 / R. Newton del. et fecit., British Cartoon Print

Print shows a man and a woman wearing the latest fashion in hats. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

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

Susu harai, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Print shows three courtesans helping a young samurai remove his swords. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one panel of a vertica... 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

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

Isaac Cruikshank - That accounts for it / I.C., British Cartoon Print

Print shows a number of men and women each with a particular problem that seems to be troubling them, they contrive a solution which leads to the remark, "that accounts for it." "Folio's of caracatures lent ou... More

Osono rokusaburō, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Print shows a woman handing a pipe to her lover who is behind her. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Fūryū aikyō kurabe... More

Isaac Cruikshank - John Bull and his piece

Cartoon of a stout man, tongue hanging out, with one arm around a stout, buxom woman wearing a cap and tattered clothing. He uses his other hand to tickle her under the chin. Imp. Pubd Novr 16the 1801 by SWFor... 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.

Enshoku akisame monogatari - Public domain drawing

Print shows a woman sitting on the floor and a man standing on steps behind her. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Hosoban Kap... More

Kira Yoshinaka - Shodan, Katsushika Hokusai, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows three people (Lady Kaoyo, Moronō, and either Wakasanosuke or Enya Hangan) next to a large trunk representing the treasury. A scene from act one of the play Chūshingura or revenge of the 47 Rōnin. Ti... More

Shin yoshiwara sanmai tsuzuki - Public domain drawing

Print shows several women, with many hairpins and elaborate headdresses, walking down a corridor in a brothel, followed by a man wearing a mask. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-s... More

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

Kira Yoshinaka - Shodan, Utagawa Kuniyasu, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows a woman on the left, Kaoyo, wife of Enya (Asano Naganori), who has received a love letter from Moronō (Kira Yoshinaka), who is standing on the right, and, in the middle, Wakasanosuke about to draw h... More

Genroku no hanami - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows two women on a red cloth spread on the ground behind a screen, and three men walking away, looking back at them.

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

Utagawa Toyokuni - Ichikawa ebijūrō no sangobei

Print shows actor Ichikawa Ebijūrō, full-length, seated on floor with shamisen at his feet, holding a fan in right hand, in the role of Sasano Sangobei. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichi... 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

Le pierrot je ne sais pas ... Mais la pierrette, pour etre la femme c'...

Drawing of a man with a long, pointed nose, in ragged clothes and a cap, standing behind and to the right of a masked figure, with a pot on his head, perhaps the mime, Pierrot. No copyright information found wi... 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

Akasaka no zu, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Print shows a woman standing on a cloud outside an inn where women are serving and entertaining men at the Akasaka station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sp... More

Yozakura no shita de chanoyu wo suru mitsūji

Print showing a woman and a man beneath a blossoming cherry tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one panel of a vertical Oban... More

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

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long, November 11, 1853

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long and Zadoc Long Jr., June 6, 185...

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long and Zadoc Long Jr., June 6, 185...

Letter from Zadoc Long, Zadoc Long Jr., and Persis Seaver Long to John...

Letter from Zadoc Long, Zadoc Long Jr., and Persis Seaver Long to John...

Letter from Zadoc Long, Zadoc Long Jr., and Persis Seaver Long to John...

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long and Zadoc Long Jr., June 6, 185...

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long and Zadoc Long Jr., June 6, 185...

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long and Zadoc Long Jr., June 6, 185...

Letter from Zadoc Long, Zadoc Long Jr., and Persis Seaver Long to John...

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long and Zadoc Long Jr., June 6, 185...

Correspondence from Zadoc Long to John D. Long, April 11 and April 13,...

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long and Zadoc Long Jr., June 6, 185...

Letter from Zadoc Long, Persis Seaver Long, and Julia Temple Davis Lon...

Letter from Zadoc Long, Zadoc Long Jr., and Persis Seaver Long to John...

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long and Zadoc Long Jr., June 6, 185...

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long and Zadoc Long Jr., June 6, 185...

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long and Zadoc Long Jr., June 6, 185...

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long and Zadoc Long Jr., June 6, 185...

Letter from Zadoc Long, Zadoc Long Jr., and Persis Seaver Long to John...

Letter from Zadoc Long, Zadoc Long Jr., and Persis Seaver Long to John...

Letter from Zadoc Long, Zadoc Long Jr., and Persis Seaver Long to John...

Letter from Zadoc Long, Zadoc Long Jr., and Persis Seaver Long to John...

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long and Zadoc Long Jr., June 6, 185...

Letter from Zadoc Long, Zadoc Long Jr., and Persis Seaver Long to John...

Letter from Zadoc Long to John D. Long, January 5, 1854

Skating scene - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Photograph of a staged outdoor winter scene showing two men observing another man lacing a woman's ice skates. Card number: "No. 204." Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GG 5.... More

The proposal - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Card number: "No. 391." Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GG 36?. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress... More