18th Century French Erotic Print | La CrainteThis humorous French erotic print depicts a woman startled in her boudoir by a voyeur peeping at her from behind the bed curtains. You might translate the title "La Crainte" as "The Fright." Hand colored stipple engraving measuring about 20 wide presented in a gilded 19th century wood frame. Condition is very good with some fading to the paper from age.

Consolation books are filled with religious passages

Very strange

it’s a favorite piece in my collection

vintage devotional assemblage consisting of a sepia print of the Madonna & Child under curved glass mounted on a Florentine style

The Victorian way to display it would be with the open part facing up: So that your “luck” doesn’t spill out the bottom

who published his own Evangelical spin on these Catholic images in 1812

Antique art nouveau pocket watch stand made of gilded metal with a putto motif

” is blazoned across the top

The flowers are made of cloth- kits were available for women to assemble them at home as a popular craft

This early 19th century transferware dish is an unusually small size

hand painted Victorian mill glass plate with a valentine’s motif: Cherub

and a small knick at the side of the cover