Morals Collection (page 3)

The Book of Good Morals by Jacques Le Grant (1464). Miniature of the Dice Game or The Argument. Gothic

The custom-house code of morals under our beautiful tariff system. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with William Dorsheimer seated at center in the Office of the US District Attorney

Time is precious. Date c1872

Englands God is Money
Money - the accepted religion of England Date: 1870

Ladies drinking at a fashionable milliners in London
Ladies drinking at a fashionable milliners establishment in London. Date: 1871

The Smokers Turn
Prohibition in the USA : - Beware, Mr Smoker, your turn is next !

A Miser and his Mate
L AVARICE A miser and his mate

Spirit Sacrifice to Wine
Man in drunken stupour, surrounded by bacchic cherubs, preferring earthly pleasures in another glass of wine to heavenly promise

Deadly Sins / Lust

Deadly Sins / Vanity

Seven Deadly Sins / Envy

Deadly Sins / Avarice

Deadly Sins / Sloth

Deadly Sins / Gluttony

Deadly Sins / Wrath

Dismissed for Pregnancy
Pregnant, is she ? Well, you know the rules - tell her she needn t bother to come to work tomorrow

Lady Rescued from Den
An inadequately dressed lady is escorted from a den of vice by two concerned but disapproving friends

Theatre / Classical / Roman
The theatres of Rome are destroyed because they are considered to have a corrupting influence on public morals

Showgirls showing their legs at an audition
A group of showgirls showing their legs at an audition. Shakespeare spells ruin, but legs mean dividends

Schoolgirl mother at Memphis, USA, with her baby
A schoolgirl mother at Memphis, Alabama, USA, proudly displays her baby to her schoolmates

Misbehaving husband in a Piccadilly night house
A wife persuades her erring husband to leave a Piccadilly night-house

Quiet London Sunday
A QUIET SUNDAY IN LONDON, or, The Day of Rest

Innocence Threatened
A virtuous French girl, on the way to her First Communion, encounters a Devil who offers her alternative suggestions

Morals / Virtue & Vice
Virtues and vices: (1) nobility (2) anger and accidie (3) envy

Bathing Fashions, Paris
When a Paris couturier stages a show of bathing fashions, his models are attacked by Parisian women affronted by the display

Daughters of Albion
VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION A criticism of the sexual morals and organised religion of Blakes time

Avarice / Greed by Galle
A profile portrait of a woman holding a purse surrounded by an ornate border of putti holding money bags, cutting purse strings and counting coins

Suggestive Fig Leaves
A kneeling one-armed man (a piece of statuary no doubt) holding an erect club hides his aroused modesty behind an up-turned fig leaf. All very explicit if a tad coy

Flacid Fig Leaf Statue
Half man half something else, a type of satir perhaps with one large leg with an eagles foot & forked beard models the down-turned or passive fig leaf. What the bell means ?

Evils of Greed & Wealth
All kneel in subservience to the demon of wealth-getting and greed. He sits blindfolded a sceptre in one hand. bulging money bag in the other. He can have whatever he wants

Vanity, Fashion, Greed
THE MODERN MOLOCH Society devotes itself to vanity, fashion and greed

Adam, Eve & the Public
1. Adam alone 2. Adam & Eve 3. Gossip

The Tree of Vices
THE TREE OF THE VICES From the roots of evil spring the Seven Deadly Sins, each in turn branching out into all manner of wickedness

Concepts / Heaven & Hell
Sinners carried off to hell, the good go to heaven : wall painting from Orsa parish in Dalarna, Sweden

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