EditorialTwo May-September couples at a ball. The old and ugly partners have arranged the company of two young, good-looking escorts, who flirt with each other. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.
EditorialEnglish gentleman and ladies listening to a harpist at a ball in a stately home. Two lovers flirt in a corner, and four people play cards in another room. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from William Combes...
EditorialHindering Choice. Three women in frilled dresses flirt with a waiter in a long apron at a cafe. "Women no longer drink wine because of their delicate nerves, but they quaff kirsch, maraschino (cherry liqueur), scubac (whisky with saffron, vanilla and c...
EditorialTwo May-September couples at a ball. The old and ugly partners have arranged the company of two young, good-looking escorts, who flirt with each other. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.
EditorialA meeting at a ball: A masked woman and Normandy girl flirt with a revolutionary man in bicorn and cockade, while a woman in drag as a Turkish man interrupts and a double bass player looks on. "I know you, but you'd don't know me, in other words I have...