A naked man and woman having sex on a collapsed bed, 18th century. A buxom maid attempts to join in and a monk watches from an open door. Copperplate engraving heliogravure by Francois Rolland Elluin after Antoine Borel from Jean-Charles Gervaise de Latouche’s Memoiren des Saturnin, von ihm selbst Niedergeschreiben, Privatdruck, Liepzig, 1911. Also known as Le Portier des Chartreux, it was one of several erotic novels written by Latouche, 1715-1782, a lawyer at the Paris Parliament.

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