1796 decree by the Viceroy of Mexico on the penalties for public drunkenness: "Women who, forgetting the natural modesty of their sex, are found intoxicated under the stated conditions shall, on each occasion up to the third offense, serve as many days in prison as men must endure in public labor."
A couple years ago I used a portrait of the Chevalier de St. George as the signature image for an exhibition called Face to Face: Portraits of People of Color Before Photography. https://storage.net-fs.com/hosting/6288278/35/
The son of a French plantation owner and a woman he enslaved, the Chevalier became a master fencer, a concert violinist, and a composer. We only had a b&w version at the time, but I just got the opportunity to acquire a hand-colored copy, and it’s really gorgeous. #NewAcq #NewAcquisition
A satire on gender roles, the frontispiece of "The Transformation of Woman into Man and Man into Woman" depicts a woman negotiating business affairs while her husband contemplates his reflection. The picture on the wall depicts a man and woman exchanging an axe for a distaff for spinning yarn.
John Overholt