… or so the maker of this exquisite piece of footwear must have thought. At first glance, it’s a shoe as worn by a fashionable lady in the mid-18th century. But at the second glance - well, at the second glance, it’s the roaring twenties in all their glory.
Now’s the moment to hit the back button if you’re not old enough for naughty shoes.

( NSFW shoe - naughty but nice! )

Following my recent post about poor Basil Hall's run-in with unhappy readers, I went on a chamber pot hunt, because I was curious if there were other unfortunate people whose portraits had ended up on the bottom of a jerry. Unfortunately, I wasn't very lucky, but at least I learned that William Randolph Hearst, the American newspaper magnate, ( Read more... )

NAPOLEON'S PRIVATES
2,500 Years of History Unzipped
by Tony Perrottet
Harper Entertainment, ISBN 978-0-06-125728-5


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Because one can never have too many icons.

Most of these are bases, so feel free to add whatever caption you can come up with. As usual, credit and feedback are great, but not necessary. Just please don't hotlink. Hotlinking makes Midshipmen cry.

TEASER

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I don't know if this drawing can beat the (in)famous chatting dicks (see icon or click on "naughty but nice" tag) in terms of weirdness, but artist Achille Deveria certainly tries his best here...!

( MOONLIGHT SERENADE - neither work- nor brain-safe (ca. 1820) )

As promised, I've made some icons out of Rowlandson's drawings - yes, the chatting dicks are there as well, and I've thought of you fellow admirers of stockings, too ( Read more... )

You knew this had to come... even more naval naughtiness, including Emma Lady Hamilton, horny mermaids, an interesting view on launching boats and something I'd call "WTF?" - have fun!

All drawings were done by Thomas Rowlandson (regulars of my LJ will remember him with great fondness for... Nelson's pipe. Like, totally the pipe).

( NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR BRAINS. AND FOR GROWN UPS ONLY. Click at your own risk. Thar shall be mermaids and general dickery... )

Let's not sugarcoat it: the following pictures are the 18th/early 19th century equivalent to the magazines your brother used to hide from your parents under the bed. Quick entertainment for the masses, but that's part of our culture, too. And those drawings are fun ( Read more... )

Following my last post recommending CITY OF LAUGHTER - Sex And Satire In Eighteenth-Century London by Vic Gatrell (I'm very certain many of us will always remember Admiral Nelson's pipe with great fondness), I bring you now two more pictures from the book.

Beware - there shall be naughtiness, nekkidness and bits that aren't dangly at all!

( THE OLD HUSBAND, THE WIFE AND THE YOUNG LIEUTENANT - NSFW! )

"Ah where & ah where, is my gallant sailor gone?
He's gone to fight ye Frenchmen, for George upon the Throne
t'loose t'other arm and eye
And left me with the old antiques,
to lay me down and cry."


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