Licking Fingers

Licking Fingers is a record label at Sweden.

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Identity

What the record establishes about Licking Fingers.

The deflowering of a young woman, she is firmly held by an older woman, while a girl holds one of her legs: the man licks his fingers to moisten his penis before entry. Coloured reproduction of a woodcut by Moronobu, ca. 1680s. is dated [168?-] and held by Wellcome Collection. Five people, each exercising one of the five senses. Coloured lithograph by L.-L. Boilly, 1823. is dated [1823] and held by Wellcome Collection. Twenty-three Flemish and Dutch proverbs. Engraving by J. van Doetecam, 1577. is dated [1577?] and held by Wellcome Collection. Brumwich, Anne (& others) is dated c. 1625-1700 and held by Wellcome Collection. Another case of poisoning. is dated 1949 and held by Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection records 6 objects associated with this heading.

Clean food. is dated 1957 and held by Wellcome Collection. Licking Fingers is associated with Sweden.

Authority records

The identifiers under which Licking Fingers may be traced in institutional catalogues.

Licking Fingers is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q5406286.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 6 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

1 scholarly publication naming this subject was located in the registry of record.

‘For Us Foreigners, Licking Our Fingers Clean Is a Good Habit’, Critical Pedagogies for Modern Languages Education, 2023.

Evidence base

This article draws on 3 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 3 means 3 genuinely separate publishers of record. 16 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 168The deflowering of a young woman, she is firmly held by an older woman, while a girl holds one of her legs: the man licks his fingers to moisten his penis before entry. Coloured reproduction of a woodcut by Moronobu, ca. 1680s. (Wellcome Collection).
  2. 1577Twenty-three Flemish and Dutch proverbs. Engraving by J. van Doetecam, 1577. is dated [1577?] and held by Wellcome Collection.
  3. 1577Twenty-three Flemish and Dutch proverbs. Engraving by J. van Doetecam, 1577. (Wellcome Collection).
  4. 1625Brumwich, Anne (& others) is dated c. 1625-1700 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  5. 1625Brumwich, Anne (& others) (Wellcome Collection).
  6. 1823Five people, each exercising one of the five senses. Coloured lithograph by L.-L. Boilly, 1823. is dated [1823] and held by Wellcome Collection.
  7. 1823Five people, each exercising one of the five senses. Coloured lithograph by L.-L. Boilly, 1823. (Wellcome Collection).
  8. 1949Another case of poisoning. is dated 1949 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  9. 1949Another case of poisoning. (Wellcome Collection).
  10. 1957Clean food. is dated 1957 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  11. 1957Clean food. (Wellcome Collection).

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    ‘For Us Foreigners, Licking Our Fingers Clean Is a Good Habit’, Critical Pedagogies for Modern Languages Education, 2023

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    PubMed, United States National Library of Medicine, records for “Licking Fingers”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 6 works naming Licking Fingers.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  4. 4.

    “Licking Fingers”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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  5. 5.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q5406286: Licking Fingers

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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