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A fat eunuch reclining on cushions. Coloured ink drawing.
Reference: 726605i- Books
The Hippocratic 'Airs, waters, places' on cross-dressing eunuchs : 'natural' yet also 'divine' / Elinor Lieber.
Lieber, Elinor.Date: 1996
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Saint Philip baptising the eunuch. Engraving by J. Browne, 1772, after J. Gresse after J. and A. Both.
Both, Jan, 1618 or 1622-1652.Date: 1 Feb. 1772Reference: 34612i- Books
Eunuchism display'd. Describing all the different sorts of eunuchs. The esteem they have met with in the world, and how they came to be made so ; wherein principally is examin'd, whether they are capable of marriage, and if they ought to be suffer'd to enter into that state ; the whole confirm'd by the authority of civil, canon, and common law, and illustrated with many remarkable cases by way of precedent ; also a comparison between Signior Nicolini and the three celebrated eunuchs now at Rome, viz. Pasqualini, Pauluccio, and Jeronimo (or Momo) ; with several observations on modern eunuchs ; occasion'd by a young lady's falling in love with Nicolini, who sung in the opera at the Hay-market, and to whom she had like to have been married / Written by a person of honour [C. Ancillon].
Ancillon, Charles, 1659-1715.Date: 1718