Amourette Louis XV - Du Brantome! (verso)
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- Title:
- Amourette Louis XV - Du Brantome! (verso)
- Collection:
- Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing in Europe and the United States, 1900-1930
- Publisher:
- S.I.P.
- Date:
- 1907
- Country:
- France
- ID Number:
- RMM07778_B1_F15_149_02
- Collection Number:
- 7778
- Card Number:
- 7778_149
- File Name:
- RMM07778_b1_f15_149_02.jpg
- Work Type:
- Gelatin silver
- Materials/Techniques:
- Applied color
- Subject:
- Male impersonators
- Measurement:
- 14 x 9 (centimeters)
- Description:
- Inscription: "Addressed to Charles Ventre (greeted as “Mon joli” or “mon petit”). Brief message on recto of all cards signed “ta Jeanette.” Three cards have longer love notes on the verso. Set of five postcards with a photo narrative of an 18th-century seduction scene involving a marquis and marquise: A woman dressed as a male aristocrat woos a female aristocrat in a studio-set formal garden. Each card includes a brief caption on near lower margin of the recto with a line of dialog. The first scene shows the female aristocrat seated by herself reading a book; the male aristocrat arrives and ultimately persuades her in the final scene: “Mettons en action le roman!” Undivided verso headed “Union Postale Universelle / Carte Postale” (with “postcard” also indicated in six other languages). The series thus dates to earlier than 1903, when postal regulations where changed to permit both a message and an address on the verso of postcards. Postage stamp folded from recto to verso on all cards; postmark on recto of four cards and verso of one card; minor creasing to upper margin of two cards.
- Cite As:
- Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing, #7778. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing
- Series:
- France: Gallant scenes
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 15
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The copyright status and copyright owners of this image cannot be determined. While it appears here without formalities, it may be protected based on the laws of its country of origin. Without additional information on the image’s provenance, a determination cannot be made. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2019 from materials held in the Rare and Manuscript Collections, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Professor Durba Ghosh and Brenda Marston, Curator of the Human Sexuality Collection. Cornell is providing access to the materials under an assertion of fair use for non-commercial educational use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Cornell would like to learn more about this item and to hear from individuals or institutions that have any additional information as to rights holders. Please contact the Rare and Manuscript Collections at rareref@cornell.edu.