English: "Female Bathers No. 4"
Author	Kurz & Allison (publishers)
Title	English: "Female Bathers No. 4"
Date	1886 date QS:P571,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium	? colored print
Notes	This is a piece of genteel erotica which didn't even bother to try to pretend to be a morally-instructive allegory, or an illustration of an incident from ancient history or mythology, etc. (in the way that much other Victorian genteel erotica did). However, there is more "accidental" covering up of naughty bits than in an Austin Powers movie... For an explanation of the apparent obsessive, near trichomaniacal, focus on long thick free-flowing hair, see the discussion on image description page Image:1799-pinup-print-archers-Adam-Buck-unbound-hair.jpg (which is largely valid for 1886 as well as 1799). Provides some insight into the preferred body-type of the time, where large thighs were apparently considered a positive. There is a cross-shaped color-registration mark at lower center.
Source/Photographer	Edited from image http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g03000/3g03200/3g03203u.tif on the Library of Congress website. See http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03203
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Other versions	See File:Female bathers, no. 3 LCCN2003656877.jpg for another in the series.

Bibliographic information found on the LoC site:

TITLE: Female bathers, no. 4

CALL NUMBER: PGA - Kurz & Allison--Female ... (B size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-3203 (color film copy transparency)

SUMMARY: Nude female bathers.

MEDIUM: 1 print : chromolithograph.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1886.

CREATOR: Kurz & Allison, copyright claimant.

NOTES: 19826R U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Kurz & Allison, art publishers, Chicago, U.S.A.

SUBJECTS:

• Nudes--1880-1890.
• Bathing--1880-1890.
• Women--1880-1890.

FORMAT: Erotica 1880-1890. Chromolithographs 1880-1890.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g03203 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03203

CARD #: 95504728