Earliest painting of a transvestite uncovered

Friday, April 20, 2012 - 11:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

An 18th-century portrait sold in New York to a British gallery as a "woman in a feathered hat" turns out to actually portray a man dressed as a woman, becoming the earliest known painting of a transvestite.

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