Usually, a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words...

...but since these are crappy cell phone pictures of an in-progress work, we'll say they're each really worth like 25 words each.

So I did not know until today that Victorian pornography was a thing. I love it. The 1800's, and thus public domain (my crack legal team consisting of my senior thesis advisor has informed me, after there was some question with my work in the past [ha!] that photographs prior to 1924 are public domain) reference for this particular monotype showed up in a Google image search from a Tumblr account. I've linked the Tumblr page with just this image - the main account is so completely not safe for work. Unless you work for a website that archives Victorian porn! Which I'm now faced with the decision of whether or not to buy a membership in the name of art. I've already purchased a year membership to the Thanatos Archive - this awesome post-mortem and mourning photo archive. Oh the things we need to purchase in the name of art!