An bizarre 19th century newsprint collage featuring a gentleman, a football player, a dead man, two devils, and the police, in an erotic kerfuffule.

American School

Don't Blow It

c1880. Newsprint collage on paper, 3 2/4 x 2 1/2 inches (95 x 63 mm). Uniform age tone.

The scene is set with a policeman interrupting three men (a footballer, a man in a bowler, and an unconscious gentleman (who resembles Alexander Hamilton) in flagrante with exposed phalluses, while two devils, one with a phallus, look on. The title below reads "Don't Blow It." The police uniform is extremely similar to those of the Maryland, US, police of the mid 1800s.

Item number: 1418

Price: $175.00

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