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  • Ganesha and his two wives, Siddhi and Buddhi, surrounded by six attendants and his rats. Chromolithograph.
  • Vishnu accompanied by his wives riding on Garuda who carries a cobra. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • 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.
  • Vishnu flanked by two wives resting on Shesa, the serpent on the waters. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • An arrangement of different castes including snake charmer, brick-layer, basket-maker, potter and wives. Gouache drawing.
  • The child Krishna subdues the snake Kaliya in water with Kaliya's two wives pleading for his life. Chromolithograph.
  • Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of the Punjab, with his wife and child accompanied by his secondary wives. Gouache painting. Page 140.
  • British soldiers disembark as they return home from India to their wives and families. Process print after H.O'Neil.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • The new-born baby; a manual for the use of mid-wives and maternity nurses / by Eric Pritchard ; with 9 illustrations.
  • British and East African sailors rescue slaves from a dhow and allot the women slaves as wives. Wood engraving after J. Nash, 1893.
  • Two medicine vendors, their wives, cats and dogs arguing about the merits of their antiscorbutic pills. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury, 1774.
  • 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.
  • Ganesha with his two wives and two female attendants, his rat and a lion with two heads all surrounded by roundels. Coloured transfer lithograph by Janaradna Vasudtya.
  • Kartikeya, also called Murugan, Hindu god of war, surrounded by a circle of peacock feathers, accompanied by his wives Valli and Devasena. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Above, puppets representing Falstaff with Mrs Page and Mrs Ford in 'The merry wives of Windsor'; below, a derelict rural thatched cottage in Hungerford. Lithograph after John Orlando Parry.
  • An episode in The merry wives of Windsor: Ford raises a stick to beat Falstaff disguised as Mrs Ford's maid's aunt. Etching by W. Krauskopf after W. Lindenschmit the younger.
  • Mr. C. French Anga's New Zealand and Australian exhibition ... : comprising upwards of 300 full-length portraits, from life, of the prinicipal New Zealand Chiefs, with their wives and children.
  • Sir William Harcourt in the role of Sir John Falstaff wooes Ireland in the role of one of the merry wives of Windsor. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 6 April 1889.
  • A faithful unmarried couple, a man with his 3 faithful wives, a couple sitting in a STD clinic and a man receiving an injection with sterilised equipment; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • The mid-wives just petition: or, a complaint of divers good gentlewomen of that faculty. Shewing to the whole Christian world their just cause of their sufferings in these distracted times, for their want of trading. Which said complaint they tendered to the House on Monday last, being the 23. of Jan. 1643. With some other notes worthy of observation.
  • [50 coloured plates / engraved by Martin Engelbrecht, from 18th-cent. German works. These are caricatures of different types of tradesmen and their wives, with the costume, tools, and apparatus of their craft. Among them are an apothecary, a spicer, and a spectacle-maker. The plates are similar to those in Larmessin's 'Album des métiers'. The artists include J.J. Stelzer, P.A. Dagmier, and P.F. Engelbrecht. All the plates except the first two have legends in French and German and appear to be from the same work].
  • [50 coloured plates / engraved by Martin Engelbrecht, from 18th-cent. German works. These are caricatures of different types of tradesmen and their wives, with the costume, tools, and apparatus of their craft. Among them are an apothecary, a spicer, and a spectacle-maker. The plates are similar to those in Larmessin's 'Album des métiers'. The artists include J.J. Stelzer, P.A. Dagmier, and P.F. Engelbrecht. All the plates except the first two have legends in French and German and appear to be from the same work].