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  • A bearded man lying in bed, his hand held by his wife who is seated next to the bed. Photograph, 187-.
  • Mrs Pottleton thinks her husband is going to give her a harmonium but he gives her a sewing machine instead. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1869.
  • Roman portrait busts of wife and husband. Line engraving with etching by H.L. Garnier after J.M.N. Bralle.
  • A man and a woman are counting their money with Death watching, armed with hourglass and scythe. Mezzotint by I. Meheux.
  • Surgeon Major and Mrs Gunning. Photograph.
  • 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.
  • Xanthippe rides on the back of Socrates with a whip in her hand. Mezzotint by J. Smith after HG.
  • A couple lie in bed, the woman has her hands and feet padlocked into stocks at each end of the bed, and her husband has a whip. Coloured aquatint. after J.F.
  • 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--.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • Head of an intoxicated man raging against his wife, showing a reason for a week of opposition to alcohol. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1923.
  • A farmer and his wife contemplating their full-grown crop in a field ready for harvest. Colour lithograph, 18--.
  • The parents of the artist. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1965.
  • 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.
  • Professor and Mrs Dejerine looking at a microscopic sample of the human brain. Photograph.
  • 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.
  • M. de Mélincourt sets off for the hunt saying farewell to his wife, while his son is having shooting lessons. Engraving.
  • A man and a woman sit contentedly in their room, he is smoking a pipe while she sews. Etching by H. Struck after Claus Meyer.
  • The parents of the artist. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1965.
  • 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 woman (May) leads a man (January) under a tree in which there is somone hiding and some onlookers are pointing at the scene. Engraving by C. Mosley after S. Wale.
  • A soldier introducing his wife to his comrades, who are getting drunk outside their barracks. Lithograph after N.T. Charlet.
  • A wife surprises her husband by showing him evidence of his gambling debts, and reveals that she has covered his debts by betting against him. Stipple engraving by J. Strutt after T. Stothard.
  • 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--.
  • 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.