Two gay men in an art gallery looking at a painting of a female nude. Colour process print after Caport, 195-.

  • Caport.
Date:
[between 1950 and 1959?]
Reference:
2059359i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Two gay men in an art gallery looking at a painting of a female nude. Colour process print after Caport, 195-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : [publisher not identified], [between 1950 and 1959?] (Printed in England)

Physical description

1 print : process print, printed in colours ; 13.8 x 8.6 cm.

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Lettering

"I tell you it doesn't look at all like a pansy.". Caport. 652.

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "The word 'pansy' may have been equivocal in 1910 (see Wellcome Library no. 2059305i ), but by the 1950s it was in general use as a pejorative term for gay men".

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2059359i

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  • Romantic fantasy and comic postcards

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