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A married couple, Charles and Julia, quarrel and sit with their backs to one another. Aquatint by C. Hunt, 1853, after T. Onwhyn.

After his honeymooon, a newly married man becomes disenchanted with his new wife and goes out drinking in his club with an old male friend. Aquatint by C. Hunt after T. Onwhyn.

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

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

After his honeymooon, a newly married man becomes disenchanted with his new wife and goes out drinking in his club with an old male friend. Aquatint by C. Hunt after T. Onwhyn.

A married couple, Charles and Julia, quarrel and sit with their backs to one another. Aquatint by C. Hunt, 1853, after T. Onwhyn.