The earliest pornographic artist in England, with name unknown, functioned halfway through the eighteenth-century. In about 1755 he produced seventeen drawings to illustrate "The Pleasures of Love: Containing a Variety of Entertaining Particulars and Curiosities in the Cabinet of Venus." The frontispiece shows a fat woman, with a basin of cordial in her left hand, the right drawing aside the curtains of a bed on which can be seen four naked legs. On the curtain is inscribed "The pleasures of Love 1755." The book was reprinted in 1881 as "The Adventures of a Rake," and in reprint the book carried inferior illustrations.