Postcard, carte articulée, Germany/Belgium, 1906
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
ca. 1906
A moveable postcard depicting a smiling young woman shown facing the observer, her chemise is open and her breasts are almost revealed, right up to the tops of the nipples.
The inscription translates as : 'Like a great serpent hidden under the flowers see what a change follows the bewitching charms.' When the lever is pulled, her breasts open out and reveal the bare buttocks of a man who is squatting to thrust them out at the viewer, their cleft being the cleavage the girl had shown. It was acquired in 1960 by E.J. Dingwell.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- Height: 13.6 cm; Width: 21 cm; Depth: 5.5 cm; Height: 9 cm; Width: 14 cm
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- Germany, Belgium
Design
- Marks and inscriptions
- 'SECTIONS 7 8 10 11 12 / Post Cards / The Milford Haven Collection / of / Post Cards. / Numbers 323 - 326 / " 336 - 340 / " 420 - 441 / " 453 - 504 / " 508 - 515'
Identification
- Source note
- Transcribed from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London collection record for this single object (sentences kept verbatim apart from removed sale or rarity wording); how far it represents a wider collectible type has not been independently verified.
- Candidate id
- vam-O60241
- Museum object name
- Postcard
- Holding institution
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Museum object number
- E.524:326-2001
- Museum system number
- O60241
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Research required: confirm the wider type, maker and dating against a specialist reference; this entry documents one recorded example.