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  • A Chinese wedding: the bride is carried to her new home. Colour woodcut by Shigemasa, ca. 1810.
  • The families of the bride and the groom gather to offer their congratulations to the couple. Engraving.
  • A woman (?) is dressed as half a bride and half Charlie Chaplin as a bridegroom. Photographic postcard.
  • A woman (?) is dressed as half a bride and half Charlie Chaplin as a bridegroom. Photographic postcard.
  • A reformed and fashionable gentleman exits from the church with his beautiful bride. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • A merry crowd with a fiddler playing a tune celebrates a marriage as the groom kisses the bride. Etching.
  • A bridegroom carrying the chauffeur over the threshold, leaving the indignant bride in the car. Colour lithograph, ca. 1968-1970-.
  • A bridegroom carrying the chauffeur over the threshold, leaving the indignant bride in the car. Colour lithograph, ca. 1968-1970-.
  • A bride emerging from a sedan chair assisted by two women, set in a palatial residence. Colour woodcut by Kuniyoshi, 1847/1850.
  • A young bride in Naples accompanied by her family and children with flowers. Engraving by Frederick A. Heath after T. Uwins.
  • Two naked men embrace: a recommendation to use safe sex. Colour lithograph by Will McBride and Detlev Pusch for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • A bride and a bridegroom, as a warning to Americans to be examined for sexually transmitted diseases before marriage. Colour lithograph, ca. 1944.
  • A sailor on H.M.S St. Vincent, in drag as a bride in a performance of 'The Great Casimir'. Photographic postcard, 1918.
  • A sailor on H.M.S St. Vincent, in drag as a bride in a performance of 'The Great Casimir'. Photographic postcard, 1918.
  • A bride accompanied by a group of guests as they descend the staircase from a balcony. Engraving by I. Neagle after E. Burney.
  • The "Aldobrandini wedding": a group of women prepare a young bride for her marriage. Engraving by A. Mochetti after Aloysius Agricola after a fresco painting.
  • Java (Indonesia): animals and indigenous people, including Javan labourers, Javan warriors, a bride of a higher class and a native sportsman being attacked by a tiger. Lithograph.
  • A bride and a bridegroom talking to one another as they are carried separately in sedan chairs. Tinted lithograph by F. Jones, 1860, after G.F. Atkinson.
  • A bride and groom being carried in palanquin decorated with flowers by eight men on their shoulders, preceded by a dancing girl. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A marriage ceremony: the bride, in red, stands on a raised platform and is hiding from the groom behind a white sheet. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The Christ Child sleeps as a bridegroom in the believer's heart, making it safe as a bride from wind and storm raging outside. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • The Christ Child sleeps as a bridegroom in the believer's heart, making it safe as a bride from wind and storm raging outside. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • A naked man stands with his arms around another man with the recommendation to use safe sex. Colour lithograph by Will McBride and Detlev Pusch for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • A marriage ceremony where the bride sits on a high chair with two older women on either side of her and the groom stands at the bottom of the platform. Engraving.
  • [Leaflet detailing the "Life and history of the great Irish Giant, Patrick O'Brien, his mammoth bride, Christianna, the great German Giantess and their infant son" at Barnard's Amphitheatre, Portsmouth, 31 January 1887].
  • The wedding of Lady Lucy Stanhope to Thomas Taylor, a surgeon-apothecary: the bride is given away by her father Earl Stanhope, while Fox and Sheridan officiate. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • [Leaflet detailing the "Life and history of the great Irish Giant, Patrick O'Brien, his mammoth bride, Christianna, the great German Giantess and their infant son" at Barnard's Amphitheatre, Portsmouth, 31 January 1887].
  • A wedding in Brittany: the women of the family adjust the young bride's dress as music is played and the groom and guests wait on the stairs to enter the room. Etching by C.O. Murray after Henry Mosler.
  • A groom with his bride and a message to love faithfully and obey the christian way of life and avoid AIDS; an advertisement by the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau. Colour lithograph by A.B.C. Ngónzi, ca. 1990's (?).
  • A French soldier returning from the American War of Independence is rewarded with the Order of Saint Louis and the hand of a rich man's daughter as his bride. Line engraving by J.J. Avril, 1784, after P.A. Wille.