Joseph and His Mistress

Frontispiece to Moliere's "Sganarelle, ou le Cocu Imaginaire" (The Imaginary Cuckold)

John Vandergucht, After William Hogarth, Related author Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière

Liberality and Desire

Thomas Rowlandson, S. W. Fores

Queen Margaret and Suffolk (Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act 3, Scene 2)

Charles Heath, the elder, After John Massey Wright, William Shakespeare

Lafontaine Tales, Amsterdam

Joseph de Longueil

La Rencontre Dangereuse

After Pierre Antoine Baudouin, Jean Jacques Leveau

Platonic Lovers

Thomas Rowlandson, After George Murgatroyd Woodward, Henry Wigstead, Samuel Hooper

Plate 4: Bertoldo stuffed in a sack, from "Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno"

Giuseppe Maria Crespi

Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont (from Kirby's Wonderful Museum)

After Charles Jean Robineau, R. S. Kirby, Charles Geneviève Louise Auguste André Timothée d'Eon de Beaumont

A man leans toward a woman standing in a doorway at right, at left a seated woman raises both hands, a canopied bed beyond, from a series of five illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin for 'The mad day, or the marriage of Figaro' (La Folle journée, ou le mariage de Figaro) by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

After Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin, Claude Nicolas Malapeau

A Man with a Turban Leading a Woman by the Hand, Behind Them a Torchbearer, plate 6 from "The Masquerades"

Workshop of Jacques de Gheyn II, After Jacques de Gheyn II

A man curled up in a chair looks toward another man who approaches him from the left in an interior setting, a woman and a man stand nearby with their hands raised, from a series of five illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin for 'The mad day, or the marriage of Figaro' (La Folle journée, ou le mariage de Figaro) by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

After Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin, Claude Nicolas Malapeau

Sympathetic Lovers

Thomas Rowlandson, After George Murgatroyd Woodward, Henry Wigstead