A bemused husband querying a doctor as to how his wife of only six months can have already given birth to a child. Wood engraving, 1838.

Date:
1838
Reference:
11190i
Part of:
Actors by gaslight
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[1838?]

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1 print on pink paper : wood engraving.

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"I say doctor, can you tell me wy my wife should have a little one and we've only been married six months!""Oh yes, it often happens with the first but never afterwards."

Notes

Given with no. 4 of Actors by gas light

Reference

Wellcome Collection 11190i

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