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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.

A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Engraving by J.J. Balechou, 1743, after E. Jeaurat.

A man of occult learning arrives at the house of a cobbler and his wife: the cobbler insults him, the wife defends him. Coloured engraving by L. Truchy after F. Hayman.

A man pulling a doctor down the path to his house to see his wife whom he thinks is ill because she doesn't want to go to the sales. Process print after J. Lee, 1934.

A bearded man lying in bed, his hand held by his wife who is seated next to the bed. Photograph, 187-.

Damon's advice to Chloe, or, Darby and Joan.

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.

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.

A man seated in a barrel with his head under a glass canopy; he breathes and his pulse is taken; Lavoisier dictates to his wife who is writing a report. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.

Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: a Cantonese bride and groom. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

Roman portrait busts of wife and husband. Line engraving with etching by H.L. Garnier after J.M.N. Bralle.

Domestic violence: a man beating his wife with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

Domestic violence: a wife beating her husband with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

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.

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

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Domestic violence: a man beating his wife with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

Domestic violence: a wife beating her husband with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

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.

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.

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

Married people

Images from the collections

Images about Married people

Works from the collections

Domestic violence: a man beating his wife with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

Domestic violence: a wife beating her husband with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

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.

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.

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

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