This “subject for a burlesque drawing” (unexecuted) was entered into a notebook kept by DGR in the 1860s, now in the library of Duke University. If completed, it would have depicted Hymen standing sentry before a door of marriage, and preventing Cupid “from peeping at a keyhole.”
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This “subject for a burlesque drawing” (unexecuted) was entered into a notebook kept by DGR in the 1860s, now in the library of Duke University. If completed, it would have depicted Hymen standing sentry before a door of marriage, and preventing Cupid “from peeping at a keyhole.”