This newspaper illustration shows scenes from the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895. It was published by The Illustrated Police News, a tabloid paper specializing in sensational stories about real-life crime that covered the trial heavily. The drawings show Wilde in court, and also the auctioning of his art collection to pay his legal fees.
In this painting, Apollo holds his dead lover, Hyacinthos, who has been killed by a discus thrown by Apollos and blown off course by the jealous west wind Zephyrus.
This fresco depicts the Roman god Jupiter kissing his mortal lover Ganymede. Painted as an imitation of an ancient Roman fresco, it was created to fool archeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, due to his enthusiasm for homosexual love and themes.
This illustration is from an English broadside ballad, printed on a single sheet of paper. The picture accompanies a set of satirical verses. The first of the three panels shows two men attempting suicide after being arrested for sodomy, the middle depicts two men embracing, and the third shows a hanged man being cut down.
