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Ratudhvaja courting Madalasa with the help of a female chaperone. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

A common cold germ asking the father of a neurasthenia bacillus if he can marry her; he is refused on account of the social gap between them. Pen drawing by C. Harrison, 1913.

A young woman in Genoa is being proposed to, watched anxiously by her brother. Engraving by S. Davenport after S.J.E. Jones.

Three interlinked scenes of a fisherman with his nets, Cupid pointing an arrow at a young couple who are contemplating marriage and a physician. Etching.

Arjuna in disguise a dancing teacher wooing Subhadra. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

King Dushyanta proposing marriage with a ring to Shakuntala. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

King Shantanu proposes to the low caste fisher girl, Matsyagandha. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Two female doctors discussing a patient. Reproduction of a drawing after G. King, 1907.

A drunken gentleman proposes to a beautiful woman at her tea table, but is rejected. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Astonishing X-Men. No. 50 / Marjorie Liu, writer ; Mike Perkins, artist.

The young woman in the story is Bianca Monti, of Genoa, The man kneeling is supposed to be Signor Alonso Voarino, a jeweller who persuades her brother Giovanni Monti to give him his sister's hand in marriage in exchange for forgiveness of a gambling debt. Giovanni is presumably the man standing in the centre. Alonso is revealed to be a swindler and robber called Bertoni, who is detected and executed. Bianca then marries an English painter called Godfrey Western, who inherits a baronetcy. The engraving seems to show Western, instead of Alonso, proposing to Bianca, presumably by mistake, as that proposal involved no sacrifice

Dialogue includes: Proud parent "You cannot have my daughter the social gulf is too wide remember you are a mere germ of a common cold - she is a bacillus of neurasthenia."

1 drawing : pen and ink, with grey wash ; border 21.1 x 29.6 cm

He stands against a calibrated marker which measures his height as 5 feet and 3 inches. The proposal reads: "Je sens les fruits de tes carésses. Dans l'espérance que tu m'épousera a moins que je ne plaide contre ton inconstance je suis ta fidele Fanchon", signed with a burning heart

1 print : etching ; platemark 22.2 x 15.6 cm

A man whose height is being measured holds a proposal of marriage that he has received. Etching by R. Brichet, 1783, after J. F. de Göz.

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Marriage proposals

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Astonishing X-Men. No. 50 / Marjorie Liu, writer ; Mike Perkins, artist.

A young woman in Genoa is being proposed to, watched anxiously by her brother. Engraving by S. Davenport after S.J.E. Jones.

A common cold germ asking the father of a neurasthenia bacillus if he can marry her; he is refused on account of the social gap between them. Pen drawing by C. Harrison, 1913.

A man whose height is being measured holds a proposal of marriage that he has received. Etching by R. Brichet, 1783, after J. F. de Göz.

Ratudhvaja courting Madalasa with the help of a female chaperone. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Wellcome uses cookies.

Marriage proposals

Images

Catalogue

Astonishing X-Men. No. 50 / Marjorie Liu, writer ; Mike Perkins, artist.

A young woman in Genoa is being proposed to, watched anxiously by her brother. Engraving by S. Davenport after S.J.E. Jones.

A common cold germ asking the father of a neurasthenia bacillus if he can marry her; he is refused on account of the social gap between them. Pen drawing by C. Harrison, 1913.

A man whose height is being measured holds a proposal of marriage that he has received. Etching by R. Brichet, 1783, after J. F. de Göz.

Ratudhvaja courting Madalasa with the help of a female chaperone. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

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