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Concept

Physicians' spouses

Images

  • A physician's wife and family in a carriage drawn by a camel ridden by a servant: suggesting the social importance of the physician, India (?). Coloured lithograph by F. Jones after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
  • Paulo Purganti, a physician shrinking from his wife's caresses. Mezzotint.
  • An ill physician refusing to let his wife call another doctor. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.
  • A fashionable doctor's wife bids him goodbye for the weekend and tells him to stay away from the nasty influenza. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Pegram, 1934.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Village practice : a year in the life of a country doctor's wife / Anne Stratford ; illustrations by Gill Younger.

    Stratford, Anne. | Date: 1996
    • Books

    The wives of fortunate men / Mary Ann Elston.

    Elston, Mary Ann. | Date: 1983
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    A physician's wife having tea with one of her husbands patients: she enquires if he is feeling better; he retorts that the more he sees the doctor the worse he feels. Process print after G. Belcher, 1929.

    Belcher, George Frederick Arthur, 1875-1947. | Date: 1929 | Reference: 15485i
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    An ill physician refusing to let his wife call another doctor. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier.

    Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896. | Reference: 15657i
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    Paulo Purganti, a physician shrinking from his wife's caresses. Mezzotint.

    | Reference: 21782i
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