Bondage

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

  • Joop Moesman

    Johannes Hendrikus (Joop) Moesman (1909 – 1988) was a Dutch surreal painter, calligrapher, typographer and type designer. Initially he worked as a draftsman at the Dutch Railways. His father, Johannes Anthonius Moesman, was a draftsman, lithographer, stone printer and amateur photographer. The self-taught Moesman visited Galerie Nord, run by the…

  • Max Beckmann

    Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (1884 – 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement.In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). This was an outgrowth of Expressionism. It…

  • The Pearl

    The Pearl: A Magazine of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading was a pornographic monthly magazine issued in London during the mid-Victorian period by William Lazenby. It was closed down by the British authorities for violating contemporary standards of obscenity. The Pearl ran for eighteen issues from July 1879 to December 1880,…

  • Glen

    Glen was a prominent illustrator of underground fetish comics for Peerless Sales in the late 1950s and early 1960s, producing over 250 erotic booklet-style prints featuring mixed fights and BDSM themes. Despite his significant impact on this clandestine scene, Glen’s true identity remains unknown, shrouded in mystery alongside his contemporaries.