Pleasure quarter posters & prints

Morning Parting at the Temporary Lodgings of the Pleasure Quarter, 1801 Kitagawa Utamaro

Picture of the First Visit to the Pleasure Quarters, mid 1800s Kitagawa Tsukimaro

A Picture of the Viewing in the Pleasure Quarters, 1810s Kikugawa Eizan

Seven Wise Women of the Pleasure Quarters, c. mid 1780s Katsukawa Shunsho

Omu Komachi (Parrot Komachi), from the series Seven Komachi of the Pleasure Quarters, ca 1802 Kitagawa Utamaro

Company in a Brothel (Messalina und Gaius Silius), 1655 Nicolaes Knüpfer

Waiting (Lattente), c. 1880 Anonymous

Street corner, four in the morning (Parodie humaine) Félicien Rops

The Courtesan Yosooi of the Matsubaya house, c1800 Anonymous

The procuress, 1625 Gerrit van Honthorst

Courtesan with Two Attendants(?). Anonymous

Prostitutes Boris Dmitryevich Grigoriev

The Stagnation (The modern dance), 1913 Boris Dmitryevich Grigoriev

Oinochoe. Love-making (naked girl climbing on to a boys lap), ca 430 BC Shuvalov Painter

A love letter François Clouet

Sugatano of Sugata Ebisuya in the Morning, Hour of the Rabbit…, 1812 Kikugawa Eizan

The Procuress, 1656 Jan Vermeer

A Candlelight Scene. A Man offering a Gold Chain and Coins to a Girl seated on a Bed, ca. 1665-1667 Godfried Cornelisz Schalcken

New Yoshiwara, from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital, early 1830s Utagawa Kuniyoshi

Interior view of a restuarant Utagawa Kunisada I

Brothel scene, 1537 Brunswick Monogrammist

Girl with a Pearl Necklace, 1874 Édouard-Théophile Blanchard

Pleasure Party by a Mill, late 1780s James the Elder Peale

Life's Small Pleasures Louis Charles Moeller

Pair of lovers with the Devil and Cupid, 1503 Bernhard Strigel

The Pleasures of the Seasons: Summer, c.1730 Johann Georg Platzer

Pleasure Garden Anonymous

In Central Pleasure Gardens Leslie Moffat Ward

Chinese Quarter Carleton Watkins

Happy Quartet; Heureux quator, 1902 Henri J.F. Rousseau

Women of the Gay Quarters, (diptych, left part), late 18th or early 19th century Torii Kiyonaga

Pleasures of Occupation Cornelis Bloemaert

Pleasure Canal Boats, Sketched at the Paddington Basin, 1849 Anonymous

Quartier Juif a Amsterdam Auguste Lepere

The pleasures of summer, engraved by Francois Joullain Jean Antoine (after) Watteau

Playing the game at quadrille Anonymous