Courtesans Collection

Japanese Geisha - Traditional flower arranging. Date: circa 1904

Catherine Walters
CATHERINE OR CLARA WALTERS, aka SKITTLES Victorian courtesan who was a lover of the marquess of Hartington, later the 8th Duke of Devonshire

Gentlemans courtesans
Close up detailing the lock of a gentlemans private book of photographs of courtesans, some of whom he may very well have visited

Exotic Oriental Vase Dance - postcard reproduction of a painting by Fabio Fabbi (1861-1946). Date: 1906

Profile portrait of a smiling Japanese Geisha girl. Date: circa 1906

Japanese Geisha playing a Traditional Shamisen
Japanese Geisha in her home playing a Traditional Shamisen Date: circa 1904

Japanese Geisha Girl dressed in her Kimono
O-Hana-san dresses to pay a visit - a Japanese Geisha Girl is aided by a male servant to dress in her Kimono. Date: circa 1906

Garden Scene, Japan - Geisha - Posed on a small stone bridge Date: circa 1905

King Charles II hiding up an oak tree in Boscobel Wood, after the Battle of Worcester, 1651. Parliamentarian or Roundhead soldier interrogate a local Royalist family. The Royal Oak

A Japanese Geisha girl - classical portrait photograph wearing a beautifully-decorated silk kimono. Date: 1910s

Garden Scene - Geisha - Japan - Blind Mans Buff
Garden Scene - Geisha - Japan - Four Geisha Girls playing a game (similar to Blind Mans Buff?) Date: circa 1905

The Courtesans Matsura and Yosoi of the Matsuba-ya. Print shows two courtesans, bust portraits, facing left. Date between 1799 and 1801

The Archdukes hunting by Jan Brueghel the Elder
The Archdukes hunting (1611) by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Flemish painter. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Nautch girl dancing
A nautch girl (dancing girl) performs rhythmic steps emphasised by the bells around her ankles. The nautch girls were often courtesans highly trained in dance & music. Date: 1870

Parade of Oiran (courtesans), Japan

Studies of Three Courtesans with Extravagant Hairstyles (1807). Fuseli, John Henry (Johann Heinrich Fssli) 1741 - 1825. Date: 1807

Two Courtesans at a Window; verso, Three quarter-length Figure & a Head (both of Mrs Fuseli) (1790). Fuseli, John Henry (Johann Heinrich Fssli) 1741 - 1825. Date: 1790

Japanese Geisha standing with her Traditional Shamisen Date: circa 1904

Japanese Geisha laughing Date: circa 1904

Three Japanese Geisha in Rickshaws Date: circa 1904

Japanese Geisha - Seated in an ornately-carved chair Date: circa 1904

Japanese Geisha Sisters in lavishly-patterned kimonos Date: circa 1904

Japanese Geisha Girls playing a game of flower cards Date: 1904

Two Japanese Geisha Girls walk hand in hand in the park Date: circa 1906

Ten Japanese Geisha Girls from Yokohama, Japan Date: circa 1907

Japanese Geisha admiring her reflection - entitled Vanity Date: circa 1906

Three Japanese Geisha girls in a Wisteria Garden. Date: circa 1917

Two Japanese Geisha girls playing crokinole
Two Japanese Geisha girl playing a game of crokinole (a cirular variant of shove ha penny). Date: circa 1917

A Japanese Geisha posing in a studio garden setting with fan and small cricket cage Date: 1910s

A Japanese Geisha at Sugita near Yokohama - pictured with three other women including a serving girl. Date: 1910s

Two Japanese Geisha in a garden with colourful blooms Date: 1910s

Japan - Five Geisha pose for the photographer in a garden Date: circa 1905

Japan - Four Geisha pose for the photographer around a bench Date: circa 1905

Japan - Three Geisha pose for the photographer by a house Date: circa 1905

Garden Scene, Japan - Geisha - Fishing on small stone bridge Date: circa 1905

Garden Scene - Geisha - Japan - One of the four girls is fidhing, whilst two others stand and hold umbrellas / parasols. Date: circa 1905

Japan - Japanese Geisha prepare themselves in the morning
Japan - Japanese Geisha (two of whom are topless) prepare themselves in the morning for the day ahead. Date: circa 1903

High ranking courtesans from New Yoshiwara District, Tokyo
High ranking prostitutes of the New Yoshiwara (Shin Yoshiwara) District, Tokyo, Japan. As can be seen on this card, the high-ranking ladies often dressed in the highest fashion of the time

High level Dancers - Egyptian Harem - Almeh
Almeh - a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily. Date: circa 1907

The courtesans Mitsuhata, Senzan, Misayama, Itotaki, and Oribae. Print shows four geishas or courtesans. Date between 1791 and 1793

The courtesans Hinatsuru and Hinamatsu of Choji-ya The court

The courtesans Yoyotose and Yoyoginu of the Matsuba-ya. Date between 1801 and 1804

The courtesans Komurasaki and Wakamurasaki of Tama-ya. Print shows two courtesans, bust portraits, facing right. Date between 1799 and 1801

Courtesans in a western-style building of Yokohama. Date 1861

Courtesans admiring a painting by Okumura Masanobu

Courtesans beneath plum blossoms. Date between 1781 and 1789

Pope Alex VI & Friends
POPE ALEXANDER VI (Roderigo Borgia) To celebrate his daughter Lucrezias marriage, he invites 50 courtesans to dine &c at the Vatican

Loyola and Courtesans
At Rome, the fervent eloquence of Loyolas preaching attracts even the most fashionable courtesans of the city

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