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Marriage customs and rites

Images

  • A celebration party is given in honour of a newly-married couple. Engraving by B. Picart after himself.
  • Rembrandt, portrayed perhaps as the prodigal son, stands with his arm round a lady (represented by his wife Saskia) by a banquet table and raises his glass. Lithograph after Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • A horse-drawn carriage has arrived at a church in a poor part of a town: a newly wed couple walk down the steps towards it as the coachman holds the door open and spectators stand by. Lithograph by C. Motte after V. Adam.
  • The wise virgins take their lamps to the newly married couple; the foolish virgins sleep. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after D.H. Friston.
  • A young woman has the laces of her bodice loosened by her new husband on their wedding night. Coloured lithograph by Bettannier brothers, 1851, after L.-F. Corréard.
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Catalogue

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    Newlyweds on tour : honeymooning in nineteenth-century America / Barbara Penner.

    Penner, Barbara, 1970- | Date: [2009], ©2009
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    • Online

    Marriage customs in many lands / by the Rev. H.N. Hutchinson ; with many illustrations.

    Hutchinson, H. N. (Henry Neville), 1856-1927. | Date: 1897
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    An essay concerning marriage / To which is added, an historical account of the marriage rites and ceremonies of the Greeks and Romans, and our Saxon ancestors, and of most nations of the world at this day. By Mr. Salmon.

    Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767. | Date: 1724
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    A king's daughter married / by Sylvia M. Hill.

    Hill, Sylvia M | Date: [date of publication not specified]
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    The "Aldobrandini wedding": a group of women prepare a young bride for her marriage. Engraving by A. Mochetti after Aloysius Agricola after a fresco painting.

    | Reference: 28407i
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