We’ll need to replicate the results, of course

This image is reblogged from a 14 January 2014 post at Infernal Wonders. Although none of the sources have an attribution, by style I’m pretty sure that it is the work of Canadian artist Barry Blair (1954-2010). The image appears to have first been published on the tumblr Effeuillages coquins (sadly now defunct, but there is an imperfect Internet Archive copy here) and comes to me via another tumblr Fifi — Feeling is First (also sadly now defunct, but there is an imperfect Internet Archive copy here).

Studying woman

This image is reblogged from this 14 January 2014 post at Infernal Wonders. At the time, it was the subject of provenance research by Bacchus at ErosBlog. Here is what he found:

The signature on this piece identifies it as the work of Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock. This page identifies Hitchcock as a prominent magazine illustrator and provides the image title “Back There in the Grass” as drawn for the December 16, 1911 Collier’s.

Seems like pretty racy stuff for 1911!