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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 41.7 x 58.2 cm

A map of Zambia containing numerous women saying no to sex before marriage; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Anti-AIDS Project and Copperbelt Health Education Project in Zambia. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Psychotherapy with couples : theory and practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies / edited by Stanley Ruszczynski ; foreword by David E. Scharff.

Foreground, right: a peasant, holding a spade, sits with his wife and four children outside their house; the front door is surrounded by a flourishing vine. Background, left: a wedding. Middle, another family scene

1 print : engraving ; platemark 18.5 x 24.8 cm

Spouses: the merits of married life. Engraving by Crispijn van de Passe the younger, 163-.

1 print : engraving, with etching, in oval ; platemark 22.9 x 26.1 cm

Elisa, seated in her favourite place in her husband's country park, sees a man approach her through the trees: it is her husband, the Marquis de Volange, whom she imagines to be a sprite called Valoë. Engraving by J. Collyer, 1788, after T. Stothard.

Dialogue includes: Village doctor. "Well, Scroggins, I hope your wife is much better to-day, eh? How is her pulse, eh? And how's her temperature?" Scroggins (considering). "Well, doctor, I don't know much about her pulses, but as for her temper" - (feelingly) - "She's got plenty of that to-day!"

1 print : wood engraving ; border 16.7 x 12 cm

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.

In the fifth scene down, Apollo, bearing a bow, takes from the man a vessel decorated with a sun-like flower with its petals spread
Laurinda Dixon comments that the couple present throughout the Mutus liber are shown in recollection of Nicolas Flamel and his wife Perrenelle (Nicolas Flamel, His exposition of the hieroglyphical figures (1624), ed. Laurinda Dixon, London 1994, p. xxx)

A man and a woman demonstrating the process of fermentation and distillation in alchemy. Etching, ca. 17th century.

"Comic" series

Comic series

1 sheet : color illustrations ; 14 x 9 cm.

Do you think the doctor could give me some pills to improve my sex urge? : No lad - he can only heal the sick - not raise the dead! / Bamforth & Co., Ltd.

1 print : line engraving and etching ; image 31.4 x 51.1 cm

A wealthy Dutch man comforting his wife after giving birth, the child is being fed by a nursemaid. Engraving by P. Tanje, 1757, after C. Troost.

'There are things even love can't do ...If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But even when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love ...' Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything - arduous pilgrimages, medical consultations, appeals to God. But when her relatives insist upon a new wife, it is too much for Yejide to bear. It will lead to jealousy, betrayal and despair. Unravelling against the social and political turbulence of 1980s Nigeria, Stay With Me sings with the voices, colours, joys and fears of its surroundings. Ayobami Adebayo weaves a devastating story of the fragility of married love, the undoing of family, the wretchedness of grief, and the all-consuming bonds of motherhood. It is a tale about our desperate attempts to save ourselves and those we love from heartbreak --

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A map of Zambia containing numerous women saying no to sex before marriage; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Anti-AIDS Project and Copperbelt Health Education Project in Zambia. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Psychotherapy with couples : theory and practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies / edited by Stanley Ruszczynski ; foreword by David E. Scharff.

Spouses: the merits of married life. Engraving by Crispijn van de Passe the younger, 163-.

Elisa, seated in her favourite place in her husband's country park, sees a man approach her through the trees: it is her husband, the Marquis de Volange, whom she imagines to be a sprite called Valoë. Engraving by J. Collyer, 1788, after T. Stothard.

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.

A man and a woman demonstrating the process of fermentation and distillation in alchemy. Etching, ca. 17th century.

Do you think the doctor could give me some pills to improve my sex urge? : No lad - he can only heal the sick - not raise the dead! / Bamforth & Co., Ltd.

A wealthy Dutch man comforting his wife after giving birth, the child is being fed by a nursemaid. Engraving by P. Tanje, 1757, after C. Troost.

Stay with me / A̦ỳobámi Adébá̦ỳo.

A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, 1825.

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A map of Zambia containing numerous women saying no to sex before marriage; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Anti-AIDS Project and Copperbelt Health Education Project in Zambia. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Psychotherapy with couples : theory and practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies / edited by Stanley Ruszczynski ; foreword by David E. Scharff.

Spouses: the merits of married life. Engraving by Crispijn van de Passe the younger, 163-.

Elisa, seated in her favourite place in her husband's country park, sees a man approach her through the trees: it is her husband, the Marquis de Volange, whom she imagines to be a sprite called Valoë. Engraving by J. Collyer, 1788, after T. Stothard.

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.

A man and a woman demonstrating the process of fermentation and distillation in alchemy. Etching, ca. 17th century.

Do you think the doctor could give me some pills to improve my sex urge? : No lad - he can only heal the sick - not raise the dead! / Bamforth & Co., Ltd.

A wealthy Dutch man comforting his wife after giving birth, the child is being fed by a nursemaid. Engraving by P. Tanje, 1757, after C. Troost.

Stay with me / A̦ỳobámi Adébá̦ỳo.

A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, 1825.

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