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  • A young doctor vows his love to a thoughtful young woman. Coloured photolithograph.
  • A soldier and a girl are holding hands as he vows his affection. Lithograph.
  • A couple stand before a priest in a pulpit as they take their marriage vows. Engraving.
  • Two men making vows to the Virgin of Loreto [?]. Drawing attributed to Pietro Paolo Jacometti, 1613.
  • A man standing in a law court vows to reform to temperance. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • A marriage ceremony is performed with the priest in the pulpit and the couple standing before two cushions which they shall kneel on when they take their vows.
  • A room of Quakers gossiping about the marriage of William Allen to Mrs. Grizell Birkbeck, seen on the left, affirming their vows. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, 1827.
  • A room of Quakers gossiping about the marriage of William Allen to Mrs. Grizell Birkbeck, seen on the left, affirming their vows. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, 1827.
  • Jephthah makes a sacrifice of his daughter according to his rash vow. Line engraving by J.W. Cook after J. Opie.
  • Angelo Loerch, being run over by a horse and carriage, makes a vow to the Madonna del Parto. Oil painting, 1883.
  • Angelo Loerch, being run over by a horse and carriage, makes a vow to the Madonna del Parto. Oil painting, 1883.
  • Angelo Loerch, being run over by a horse and carriage, makes a vow to the Madonna del Parto. Oil painting, 1883.
  • The oath of Henri de Guise: he and his mother look at a painting of the assassination of his father, and vow revenge. Wood engraving by H. Linton after H. Rousseau after P.-C. Comte, 1864.
  • A drunkard stands before his poor family and swears by the Holy Bible. Wood-engraving by J. Johnston, c. 1864, after G. Cruikshank.
  • Jephthah's daughter contemplating her virginity and her imminent death, surrounded by woeful attendants with musical instruments. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1846, after H. O'Neil.
  • Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, attending her trial for bigamy. Etching by John Hamilton Mortimer, 1776.
  • Saint Rosa of Viterbo: her tonsure on entering the Franciscan order. Photogravure, 1907, after Benozzo Gozzoli, 1453.
  • A nun wearing purple robes kneeling in a gothic church and being whipped with a red whip. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A nun wearing purple robes kneeling in a gothic church and being whipped with a red whip. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • Half-clothed Tilottama flying in the sky playing with a red ball. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • A man stabbing a woman with a stiletto. Oil painting, 18--.
  • A man stabbing a woman with a stiletto. Oil painting, 18--.
  • A courtroom scene with a judge, a pregnant woman, a guilty looking man and an angry wife. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • A paternity suit: in a courtroom, a judge, a guilty looking woman, an enraged wife, and the supposed father. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • A man being hit on the head by a falling flower-pot in Rome, Via del Nazzareno. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • A man being hit on the head by a falling flower-pot in Rome, Via del Nazzareno. Oil painting, ca. 1890.
  • A man and a woman holding a baby before an altar. Oil painting by an Italian painter, 18th (?) century.
  • A doctor meeting a patient, a woman pours a chamber-pot into the street. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1789.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.