Mistress of the west posters & prints

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour Swan Electric Engraving Company

Horemheb and Hathor Egyptian 18th Dynasty

Horemheb and Hathor Egyptian 18th Dynasty

Lola Montez Josef Heigel

The Courtesan Jan van Beers

Marquise de Pompadour Anonymous

Lady Hamilton Johann Heinrich Schmidt

Potiphar's wife Bartolome Esteban Murillo

The Young Courtesan, 1821 Alexandre Francois Xavier Sigalon

The Cuckold departs for the Hunt, c.1800 Isaac Cruikshank

Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères (c1795-1840) Anonymous

Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, 1645-48 Bartolome Esteban Murillo

A Courtesan and Her Lover Estranged by a Quarrel: Page from a Rasamanjari series,1694-95 Devidasa of Nurpur

Portrait of the Hon. Isabella Ingram, later Marchioness of Hertford John Hoppner

Portrait of Marie Laczinska Countess Walewska French School

Barbara, Countless of Castlemaine Anonymous

Eleanor Gwynne engraved by Valentine Green 1777 Peter (after) Lely

Madame de Montespan as Diana the Huntress Charles Beaubrun

Nell Gwynne, English actress Valentine Green

Portrait of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, c.1680 Peter (after) Lely

Portrait of Virginia Oldoini Countess of Castiglione Italian School

Prince and his mistress in a sexual position. Guler, Punjab Hills, India, early 19th century Unknown

Portrait of Marie-Thérèse Bourgoin, mistress to Emperor Alexander I, ca 1809 Anonymous

Mirandor's mistress, the Marquise, discovers her lover Pieter van Rijschooten

Lady Letitia Lade, mezzotint by Frederick Bromley, c.1785 Joshua Reynolds

Portrait of Francoise-Louise de la Baume le Blanc Duchesse de Vaujour, called Mademoiselle de la Valliere Jean Nocret

Maria Zambaco, the Artist's Mistress, 1870 Edward Coley Burne-Jones

Hamsa's son Rustum with his mistress Mihr Afruz. India, mid-16th century Unknown

The Indian Princess Malinche or Dona Marina, Mistress of Hernando Cortes interpreting for him Diego Duran

The Mistress Cutler Anonymous

Falstaff 'I will esconce me behind the Arras' Frederick William Davis

Merchant's woman with a mirror Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev

The British and Foreign School Society's New Training College for One Hundred Mistresses at Stockwell UK Anonymous

Rosamond Clifford, c.1820s English School

The Schoolmistress Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre

Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine Peter Lely