October 12th, 2016 -- by Bacchus
It Were Ever Thus: Menaced From Behind
Spanking Blog brings us this vintage entry from the category of “as bad as things seem today, they used to be a lot worse”:
Apparently there was a time when a woman couldn’t even pray without a big creepy man menacing her from behind…
The artist is not known, but if I had to take a wild stab at guessing, I’d go with Thomas Rowlandson. (I am very much hoping this bad guess will stimulate someone to come along and set me right.)
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Can’t say who it is, but it’s certainly not Rowlandson. Going by hair and the fact it’s a catholic priest, I’d guess it’s probably early nineteenth century French.
Not that bad of a guess, but I imagine Hogarth might be closer to the style. I don’t actually recognise it as one of his popular works, but maybe he thought it was too graphic for the times to sign?
Rowlandson’s work often had a more comedic/charicature addressing of the face, and usually less detailed crosshatching. I have often confused the two myself in the past. This is merely a guess mind you…
Rowlandson wouldn’t have bothered with the detail in the panelling or the priest’s clothes. He also had a standard ‘pretty girl’ face and this isn’t it. I haven’t seen any of his pornography tho…