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A woman breastfeeding her child among her family. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade, 1641.

A father feeding his infant whilst the mother attends to domestic jobs and a small child plays with its food. Pen drawing after A. van Ostade, 1648.

A father feeding his infant while the mother attends to domestic jobs and a small child plays with its food. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1648.

A woman breast-feeding her child among her family. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1641.

A woman breastfeeding her child among her busy family. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1786, after A. van Ostade.

The captain's bulletin, in reply to scribblers and meddlers : "Rule a wife and have a wife."

A dying man receiving extreme unction from a priest while surrounded by servants and his grieving family. Etching by A. Baratti after A. Novelli after B. Picart.

Aḥkām al-usrah wa-al-bayt al-Muslim / Muḥammad Mutawallī al-Shaʻrāwī ; dirāsat wa-iʻdād wa-taḥqīq Markaz al-Turāth li-Khidmat al-Kitāb wa-al-Sunnah.

Governing the hearth : law and the family in nineteenth-century America / Michael Grossberg.

The London cuckold: or, an antient citizens head well fitted with a flourishing pair of fashionable horns : by his buxome young wife, who was well back'd by a coltish spark, in the time of her husbands absence at the campaign on Hounslow-Heath. Tune of, O mother! Roger, &c. This may be printed, R.P.

The catologue of contented cuckolds: or, A loving society of confessing brethren of the forked order, &c : who being met together in a tavern, declar'd each man his condition, resolving to be contented, and drown'd melancholly in a glass of necktar. To the tune of, Fond boy, &c. or, love's a sweet passion, &c.

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Domestic relations

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Images referencing Domestic relations

Works from the collections

Aḥkām al-usrah wa-al-bayt al-Muslim / Muḥammad Mutawallī al-Shaʻrāwī ; dirāsat wa-iʻdād wa-taḥqīq Markaz al-Turāth li-Khidmat al-Kitāb wa-al-Sunnah.

Governing the hearth : law and the family in nineteenth-century America / Michael Grossberg.

The London cuckold: or, an antient citizens head well fitted with a flourishing pair of fashionable horns : by his buxome young wife, who was well back'd by a coltish spark, in the time of her husbands absence at the campaign on Hounslow-Heath. Tune of, O mother! Roger, &c. This may be printed, R.P.

A woman breastfeeding her child among her family. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade, 1641.

Domestic relations

Images from the collections

Images referencing Domestic relations

Works from the collections

Aḥkām al-usrah wa-al-bayt al-Muslim / Muḥammad Mutawallī al-Shaʻrāwī ; dirāsat wa-iʻdād wa-taḥqīq Markaz al-Turāth li-Khidmat al-Kitāb wa-al-Sunnah.

Governing the hearth : law and the family in nineteenth-century America / Michael Grossberg.

A woman breastfeeding her child among her family. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade, 1641.

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