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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.
Date: 1886- Pictures
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A man and a woman are counting their money with Death watching, armed with hourglass and scythe. Mezzotint by I. Meheux.
Meheux, Jacques.Reference: 34902i- Pictures
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A doctor visiting an Irish patient whose wife queries the recommendation to take one pill three times a day. Wood engraving after D. Wilson, 1903.
Wilson, David, 1873-1935.Date: 1903Reference: 15341i- Books
Family likeness : sex, marriage, and incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf / Mary Jean Corbett.
Corbett, Mary Jean, 1962-Date: 2008- Pictures
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A farmer and his wife contemplating their full-grown crop in a field ready for harvest. Colour lithograph, 18--.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 36004i- Pictures
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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-.
Date: [between 1870 and 1879]Reference: 2885109i- Pictures
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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.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: [1869]Reference: 35340i- Pictures
Domestic violence: a wife beating her husband with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.
Reference: 27917i- Pictures
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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.
Date: Novr. 1807Reference: 28582i- Pictures
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--.
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 573445i- Pictures
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A doctor asking his patients husband how she is, he replies (amidst a devasted room) that he's not sure but she certainly has a temper. Wood engraving by H ..., 1904.
Date: 1904Reference: 15343i- Pictures
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A soldier introducing his wife to his comrades, who are getting drunk outside their barracks. Lithograph after N.T. Charlet.
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.Date: [between 1824 and 1827]Reference: 35364i- Pictures
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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.
Meyer, Claus, 1856-1919.Date: 1886Reference: 28141i- E-books
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Matrimonial scenes: consisting of the Seaman's tale, the Manciple's tale, the character of the wife of Bath, the Tale of the wife of Bath, and her five husbands. All modernized from Chaucer
Chaucer, Geoffrey- Pictures
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M. de Mélincourt sets off for the hunt saying farewell to his wife, while his son is having shooting lessons. Engraving.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 34701i- Books
Giovan Lodovico Vives da Valenza Dell'vfficio del marito verso la moglie, dell'istitutione della femina Christiana, uergine, maritata, o uedoua, et dello ammaestrare i fanciulli nelle arti liberali. Opera veramente non pur diletteuvole ma anco utilissima / [Juan Luis Vives].
Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540.Date: 1561- Pictures
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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.
Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836.Date: 25 September 1834Reference: 43318i- Archives and manuscripts
First series: - Precocious development, sexual characters, hypernephromata, hypernephromata and so-called 'Gravitz' tumours, etc
Date: 1905-1943Reference: PP/FPW/B.261/1Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Pictures
Domestic violence: a man beating his wife with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.
Reference: 27912i- Pictures
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Head of an intoxicated man raging against his wife, showing a reason for a week of opposition to alcohol. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1923.
Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945.Date: 1923Reference: 38570i- Pictures
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Bacon's rebellion, Virginia, 1676-1677: Lydia, the wife of the rebel Edmund Cheeseman, faints as he is condemned for treason by the governor of Virgina, William Berkeley; a toothless old lady is restrained from attacking her. Coloured etching by A. Bobbet after F. Darley.
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 43252i- Pictures
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Surgeon Major and Mrs Gunning. Photograph.
Reference: 12837i- Books
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Merry nevves from Epsom-Wells : being a witty and notable relation, of a lawyers lying with a London goldsmiths wife, at Epsom, whilest the kind cuckold went for water: and the manner of the beating up of their quarters one morning early, by the lawyers wife, as they embracing each other in bed together. With the goldsmith's loving speech in vindication of his wife, to hundreds of people, there present; who conducted them out of the town with great shouts and ecchoes; and wo[r]thy of observation by the noble citizens.
Date: 1663- E-books
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The marriage exchange : property, social place, and gender in cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550 / Martha C. Howell.
Howell, Martha C.Date: c1998- E-books
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Man and wife in America : a history / Hendrik Hartog.
Hartog, Hendrik, 1948-Date: 2000