Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
388 results
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • The bottle, by George Cruikshank; 'The husbands in a state of furious drunkeness, kills his wife'
  • Lady Strachan and Lady Warwick making love in a park, while their husbands look on with disapproval. Coloured etching, ca. 1820.
  • Two wives of Arab sailors, one with a child, about to join their husbands on board Portuguese ships. Etching by Johannes á Doetechum after Linschoten.
  • A man is selling horns from his basket, as emblems of cuckoldry: husbands reply that they will not buy any because they already have plenty. Engraving by Frs. Hubert after Le Nain (?).
  • Two books of physick: viz. I. Medicaments for poor; or, physick for the common people .... / First written in Latin by ... John Prevotius .... Translated into English, and somthing [sic] added, by Nich. Culpeper .... II. Health for the rich and poor, by diet without physick. By Nich. Culpeper .... Also Culpepers Ghost [by Peter Cole?]. [Before which prefixed, Mris. Culpepers Epistle in vindication of her husbands reputation].
  • Sir George Husband Baird Macleod. Photograph.
  • Dedication to Mary Rebecca Hobson from her husband.
  • Savitri pleading with Yama for her husband's life. Chromolithograph.
  • A woman giving her husband some betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • Adelaide Bartlett, accused of murdering her husband. Wood engraving, ca. 1886.
  • A husband wearily pampers his pregnant wife. Lithograph by F. Bouchot, 1838.
  • A woman raises a shoe to hit her husband with it. Engraving.
  • Sir George Husband Baird Macleod. Photograph by T. & R. Annan & Sons.
  • Savitrī pleading with Yama for her husband, Satyavān's life. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Head of Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary. Drawing, c. 1791, after Raphael.
  • A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Mezzotint by J. Simon, 17--, after Etienne Jeaurat.
  • China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband. Photograph, 19--.
  • A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Engraving by J.J. Balechou, 1743, after E. Jeaurat.
  • Amoy (Xiamen), Fujian province, China: a husband and wife. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.
  • Amoy (Xiamen), Fujian province, China: a husband and wife. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.
  • A husband encourages his wife to breastfeed in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Unicef, ca. 1995.
  • The popular herbal family medical guide and husband's and wife's handbook / The Hygienic Stores Ltd.
  • A lady buys some black garters to cheer up her sick husband. Wood engraving, c. 1900.
  • A woman changing her child's nappy, her husband is watching them in an amused manner. Mezzotint.
  • A woman changing her child's nappy, her husband is watching them in an amused manner. Mezzotint.
  • 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.
  • An exotic doctor magnetises a young woman; her husband looks on. Lithograph by C. Jacque, c. 1843.
  • An exotic doctor magnetises a young woman; her husband looks on. Lithograph by C. Jacque, c. 1843.