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Lady Godina's Rout - or - Peeping-Tom Spying out Pope-Joan, James Gillray: 1796

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Lady Godina's Rout - or - Peeping-Tom Spying out Pope-Joan, James Gillray: 1796
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Women's clothing (or lack of clothing) might show all! Note the candle-snuffer is enjoying the sights. Why "Pope Joan"? It was said that there was a female Pope, that to prove innocence of fathering a child, that she was brought to court on charges of fathering a local woman's child. She proved her innocence only by baring her breasts in public.

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