Sex therapy.- [Graham (James, quack doctor or sex therapist, 1745-1794)] The Celestial Bed with the Rosy Goddess of Health reposing thereon, engraving in original hand-colour, sheet 17 x 12 cm. (6 ¾ x 4 ¾ in.), minor marginal repairs, [c.1782].

⁂ After an undistinguished medical career in his native Scotland, Graham travelled to America in 1770 and observed Benjamin Franklin's experiments in electricity. On his return to London, these were incorporated from 1781 into his Celestial Bed at the Temple of Hymen which promised occupants, including (separately) John Wilkes, the Duchess of Devonshire and the Prince of Wales, an improved sex life and relief from impotence and sterility for £50 a night. He is said to have employed Emma Lyon, later Hamilton, as one of his Goddesses of Health.

Provenance: Hulton Deutsch Collection.