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Marriage - France

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  • A lady buys some black garters to cheer up her sick husband. Wood engraving, c. 1900.
  • A bourgeois wife shows her husband the preserved foetus of her cousin. Wood engraving by F. Rouget after S.G.C. Gavarni.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.
  • A physician beds a young woman; her husband looks on pensively, hoping that the physician will not charge him for this 'operation'. Colour process print after Cuiliale (?), c. 1905.
  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Wood engraving after G. de Cari.

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    A physician beds a young woman; her husband looks on pensively, hoping that the physician will not charge him for this 'operation'. Colour process print after Cuiliale (?), c. 1905.

    Culiale. | Date: c. 1905 | Reference: 17164i
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    An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Wood engraving after G. de Cari.

    Cari, Godissart de, active 1820. | Reference: 18220i
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    A woman weeps at her paramour's bed; the doctor puts away his lancet. Coloured lithograph by Joséphine-Clémence Formentin after C. Philipon, ca 1829.

    Philipon, Charles, 1800-1862. | Date: [c. 1829] | Reference: 16558i
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    An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.

    Cari, Godissart de, active 1820. | Reference: 16243i
    Part of: Musée grotesque
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    An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).

    | Reference: 16241i

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