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  • A soldier introducing his wife to his comrades, who are getting drunk outside their barracks. Lithograph after N.T. Charlet.
  • John Anderson and his wife seated by a fire in a modest house; a cat sleeping on a stool in front of the chimney. Woodcut after R. Burns, 18--.
  • 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.
  • Surgeon Major and Mrs Gunning. Photograph.
  • Xanthippe rides on the back of Socrates with a whip in her hand. Mezzotint by J. Smith after HG.
  • Head of an intoxicated man raging against his wife, showing a reason for a week of opposition to alcohol. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1923.
  • David Copperfield as a boy enters the study of Dr Strong who is absorbed in lexicographic work; his young wife Annie is sitting on a stool at his feet. Etching by Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne), 1849.
  • Professor and Mrs Dejerine looking at a microscopic sample of the human brain. Photograph.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • Baron Donderdronkdickdorff and Miss Quoltz: after their wedding, they quarrel and are surprised by a servant. Etching, 1810, attributed to I. Cruikshank and/or G. Cruikshank.
  • The ghost of Ravia, dressed in white with blood on her dress, appears to her husband Cazem during a storm at night, in front of Gothic ruins, and asks him to avenge her murder. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1810.
  • A man and woman of the Toda tribe standing in a photographic studio, with a dog lying at their feet.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Family life in China: the revolutionary reforms of the marriage laws. Colour lithographs, 1952.
  • Suttee. Gouache painting by a painter of Thanjavur (Tanjore), ca. 1800.
  • A wife sending her husband away on holiday in order to pursue an affair with a "nerve specialist" who has got the husband out of the way by recommending a change of scene for him. Colour process print, c. 1920.
  • A married couple who have begun physically to resemble each other. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Look! Look! Startling attractions. Monday, December 6th, 1886, and every evening : Another surprise for London. Important engagement of Pat O'Brien, the great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowned German Giantess ... / Middlesex Music Hall, Mogul Tavern, 167 Drury Lane.
  • A husband holds his new born baby as his wife rests in bed: promoting health facilities for safe childbirth in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.
  • Louis (Ludwig) de Wette, physician of Basel. Oil painting by Amalia de Wette-Jersing, 1843.