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  • A drunken man beating his wife while the children try to stop him; a warning against the effects of alcohol. Lithograph.
  • A drunken man beating his wife while the children try to stop him; a warning against the effects of alcohol. Lithograph.
  • A drunken man beating his wife while the children try to stop him; a warning against the effects of alcohol. Lithograph.
  • A shopkeeper sews up his wife's mouth to stop her from nagging. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Two men dressed in drag having a conversation: one is injured as a result of wife-beating. Colour lithograph, 1908.
  • Two men dressed in drag having a conversation: one is injured as a result of wife-beating. Colour lithograph, 1908.
  • Domestic violence: a husband holding his wife by the hair about to strike her with a shoe, while she tries to defend herself with a broom. Watercolour drawing.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.
  • Narasimha, the lion-headed avatar of Vishnu, emerges from a stone pillar to disembowel the demon Hiranyakashipu. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • John Coakley Lettsom, physician, with his family, in the garden of Grove Hill, Camberwell.