ONLINE ONLY: Rare Victorian Nude & Risque CDVs

Victorian Debauchery: Risqué CDVs of the 19th Century Eighty-five lots from a single-owner collection of Victorian erotic cartes de visite assembled over several decades. The catalog ranges from studio nude portraits and risqué partially dressed poses to hand-colored illustrated filler cards reproducing classical and mythological paintings, and on to frankly explicit photographs of couples and groups in staged interior settings. Notable photographer and publisher marks appear throughout, including L. Dubois & Cie of 68 Rue St. Martin, Paris; Enrico Branchi of Genova; Roberto Rive of Naples; Photographische Gesellschaft of Berlin; the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company; and Nunes Photographic Gallery...