Bondage

Beautiful vintage illustrations of rope, restraints, captivity and elegant helplessness.

  • Charles Hirlemann

    Charles Hirlemann was a French artist who signed his works C. Ch Hirlemann or, sometimes identified as “G. Hirlemann” in some library catalogs, but it is a mistake (the Ch was mistaken for a G). The book The Case of Uncle Tom clearly identifies the name of illustrator (Ch. Hirlemann)…

  • Cheri Herouard

    Cheri Herouard (1881 – 1961) was a French artist and illustrator of numerous erotica and spanking novels. He used the pseudonym Herric when he illustrated spanking novels for various French publishing houses, such as Jean Fort’s Collection des Orties Blanches.Chéri Hérouard was born as Chéri-Louis-Marie-Aime Haumé in Rocroi on January…

  • Jim (German)

    There is no information known about this artist. The style of drawings is different from the artworks by ‘Swiss Jim‘. Despite this, these two artists get confused or mixed up very often.Typical for the artworks of Jim is that he drew over faces from photos. Sometimes you get the feeling…

  • M. del Giglio

    M del Giglio was an illustrator who created M/F spanking drawings in the early 1900s. Interestingly, he seems to have avoided drawing bare bottoms. There is always some clothing covering at least half of the body from the damsels getting spanked. Books illustrated by M. del Giglio that are featured…

  • Gert Gagelmann

    Gerhard Georg August Gagelmann ( 1902 – 1964) was the quintessential Weimar illustrator: sharp, confident, and always in demand. Gert Gagelmann graduated with distinction from Berlin’s Reimann School in 1921, the same year his work first appeared in Der Brummer. In September 1924, at age 22, he married fellow artist…

  • Hata Deli

    Hata Deli is one of the most enigmatic and revered masters of vintage femdom illustration, a shadowy European (perhaps German) artist whose razor-sharp linework and unflinching visions of female supremacy defined an underground pinnacle of interwar erotic art. Active during the 1920s and 1930s, Deli produced a scarce but electrifying…