A brothel (or seraglio) scene set in a seventeenth-century dutch interior; at centre, a man and a woman engaged in intercourse, he sitting in an armchair, wearing a skullcap and holding a flagon in his left hand against a low wooden stool, she sitting on top of him, wearing a short cap and drop earrings, and holding up a glass with an ornate stem; a second couple on a raised bed behind at right; a pot hanging in the fireplace at left, dog and cat on the floor at right; heavily trimmed within the design at top. Etching with stipple. Date: 1790-1810 (c.). Dimensions: Height: 146 mm (trimmed); Width: 136 mm (trimmed). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. A Dutch serglio (BM 1977,U.535)
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