Georges Topfer was a French spanking artist from the late 1910s to the mid-1930s. Topfer often used the pseudonyms Gaston Smit, G. Smit, GTS and James Barclay. Below are his illustrations from the 1914 novel Flora en pension (Flora in Boarding School) by Aimé Van Rod.
“My attention was abruptly caught by a sharp snap followed by a muffled cry. Miss Rachel had just applied the first blow of the correction right on Maud’s fleshy rotundity and the unfortunate woman was already expressing her pain. It seemed to me that each blow echoed on my own flesh and an intense heat gradually permeated all the fibers of my body. I couldn’t take my eyes off this extraordinary scene…”
