The only way he is allowed now to recognise his wife.

Date:
1850-1930
Reference:
3305609i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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About this work

Description

Colour print of a man and woman swapping traditional gender roles with the man wearing a dress and slippers holding a baby and the woman wearing trousers and holding a shoe as if about to hit the man with it.

Publication/Creation

1850-1930

Physical description

1 postcard : print ; 13.8 x 8.9 cm

Lettering

Sie hat die Hosen an (printed in red and black, bottom recto) The title and caption roughly translates to 'Modern Marriage - She has the trousers' There is an extensive German inscription written in black ink on the recto.

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3305609i

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Where to find it

  • Photograph album on lesbian depictions, male impersonation, gender and masculinity

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