File:Adolf-Willette pseudo-medieval chastity-belt trade-card Theophile-Bein.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionAdolf-Willette pseudo-medieval chastity-belt trade-card Theophile-Bein.jpg |
English: Sketch for a humorous "trade card" (combination advertisement and business card) for one Théophile Belin (whose first name is ornamentally spelled with a Greek letter Theta), drawn by French caricaturist Adolphe Willette ca. 1900. Probably the actual printed cards would have contained additional text, otherwise it would be a "visiting card" (there is no address or profession marked).
This jocularly depicts a medieval young woman confined in a chastity belt (though as a matter of historical fact the chastity belt was much more of a Renaissance phenomenon than medieval), and also a highly-caricatured pseudo-medieval man with a ring of keys who has entered by climbing a ladder to the balcony outside her window. The woman is drawn as quite cheerful, despite wearing nothing but her voluminous hair-covering headdress and the chastity belt... |
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circa 1900 date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Source | Scanned from an early 20th-century book edited by Eduard Fuchs (probably Die Frau In Der Karikatur, 1907). | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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creator QS:P170,Q365874 |
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The author died in 1926, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 95 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929. | |
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. |
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse
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current | 10:17, 8 February 2008 | 625 × 480 (122 KB) | AnonMoos (talk | contribs) | Sketch for a humorous "trade card" (combination advertisement and business card) for one Theophile Bein (whose first name is ornamentally spelled with a Greek letter Theta), drawn by French caricaturist Adolf Willette ca. 1900. Probably the actual printe |
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