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A gynaecological physician seducing a patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.

Date

[1852?]

Reference

563243i

Part of

Morality of modern medicine-mongers. Dedicated to the husbands, fathers, and brothers, of England, and also to the societies for the prevention of vice

A man leans on the shoulder of his partner while looking back at another woman with the message: "Absence of trust is the end of safety. AIDS is not like getting a cold ... Do not give AIDS a chance". Colour lithograph, 199-.

Date

[between 1990 and 1999]

Reference

673636i

Tropic of Capricorn / Henry Miller.

Date

1964

Judicia (seu legum censuræ) de variis incontinentiæ speciebus, adulterio scil., polygamia & concubinatu, fornicatione, stupro, raptu, peccatis contra naturam, incestu & gradibus prohibitis : additâ insuper explicatione quî ex communi rationis jure delicta hæc inhonesta, & humanæ felicitati inimica esse arguantur / ... per Robertum Sharrock.

Date

1662

Four types of physician using their qualifications to take advantage of their women patients or of the public. Coloured lithographs, ca. 1852.

Date

[1852?]

Reference

563105i

The royal sin: or, Adultery Rebuk'd in a Great King. Being a discourse from the following Text. And Nathan said unto David, Thou art the Man, 2 Sam. xii. 7. deliver'd in the parish of St. Martin's, and publish'd at the unanimous Request of the Congregation. Addressed to Those whom it may concern. By J. T. D.D.

Date

MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]

The Campbell divorce case : copious report of the trial / With numerous portraits of those concerned drawn from life by Harold Furniss.

Date

1887

A physician called out of bed by a hoax night call. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson, 18--.

Date

[between 1800 and 1899]

Reference

650872i

The house of Peeresses: or, female oratory. Containing the debates of several Peeresses on the Bishop of Landaff's Bill for the more effectual discouragement of the crime of adultery. Principal Speakers, Duchess of G-n, Countess Dowager of Hu-n, Lady Cr-n, Countess of D-th, Duchess Dowager of B-d, Lady G-r, Countess of N-t, Duchess of L-, Lady P-, Countess Dowager of H-n, &c. President, A****a Ba****ss C*****s, late Ma*******ss of C********n.

Date

MDCCLXXIX. [1779]

A furious cuckold rushes at his rival with a sword. Engraving.

Reference

20090i

The royal sin: or, adultery rebuk'd in a great king. Being a discourse from the following Text. And Nathan said unto David, Thou art the Man, 2 Sam. xii. 7. deliver'd in the parish of St. Martin's, and published at the unanimous Request of the Congregation. Addressed to those whom it may concern. By J.T. D.D.

Date

[1738]

Modern infidelity considered, with respect to its influence on society: in a sermon, Preached at the Baptist Meeting, Cambridge. By Robert Hall, A.M.

Date

1800

The royal sin: or, adultery rebuk'd in a great king. Being a discourse from the following Text. And Nathan said unto David, Thou art the Man, 2 Sam. xii. 7. deliver'd in the parish of St. Martin's, and published at the unanimous Request of the Congregation. Addressed to those whom it may concern. By J. T. D.D.

Date

[1738]

An old man sits with his arm round a girl and plies her with drink as his wife watches through a window. Engraving by J. Le Bas after D. Teniers.

Reference

26801i

The character, praise and commendation, of a chaste and virtuous woman: in a learned and pious discourse against adultery. By Mordecai Moxon.

Date

1708

A drunken husband lies sleeping as his young wife plots furtively with her lover, a foreign soldier. Engraving by A. Capellan after G. B. Piazzetta.

Date

1700-1799

Reference

26936i

A closed red tulip pointing towards an opening lily representing 'Love Question No 159', a warning that you can think what you like about infidelity, but you must think about the consequences of cheating without a condom?; one of a series of safe sex AIDS prevention advertisements by Folkhälsoinstitutet, RFSU and RFSL. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.

Date

[1995?]

Reference

676361i

The house of Peeresses: or female oratory. Containing the debate of several Peeresses on the Bishop of Landaff's Bill for the more effectual discouragement of the crime of adultery. Principal speakers, Duchess of G-n, Countess Dowager of Hu-n, Lady Cr-n, Countess of D-th, Duchess Dowager of B-d, Lady G-r, Countess of N-t, Duchess of L-, Lady P-, Countess Dowager of H-n, &c. President, A****a Ba****ss C*****s, late Ma*******ss of C********n.

Date

MDCCLXXIX. [1779]

Joseph being seduced by Potiphar's wife. Engraving by J. Frey after C. Cignani.

Reference

11671i

Trial, sentence and execution of Robert Cooper at Newgate for the murder of Anne Jane Barnham, at Isleworth.

Date

[1862]

Potiphar's wife tumbles on her bed with a terrified Joseph. Stipple engraving by W. Nutter after R. Cosway, 1802.

Date

2 May 1802

Reference

15912i

A wife sending her husband away on holiday in order to pursue an affair with a "nerve specialist" who has got the husband out of the way by recommending a change of scene for him. Colour process print, c. 1920.

Date

[between 1920 and 1929?]

Reference

544301i

Part of

B. B. London

Christ and the woman taken in adultery. Engraving by P. Anderloni after Titian.

Date

[18--]

Reference

34466i

Zaleucus having one of his eyes removed for one of his son's eyes, with six lines of verse by A. Montanus below. Line engraving by H. Quellinus after A. Quellinus.

Date

1665-1668

Reference

16320i

The Tarakeshwar murder: Elokeshi offers a betel-leaf to the seated Mahant. Watercolour drawing.

Reference

26882i