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Courtship

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  • Tom Jones and Sophia Western are seated together on a sofa as Squire Western enters the room with a riding whip. Stipple engraving by Peter Simon after J. Downman.
  • A female scorpion being led into a burrow by her mate. Reproduction of a photograph by P. H. Fabre.
  • An obese man wooing a tall lean woman outside a mausoleum; representing dropsy and consumption. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1810.
  • An alchemist and his assistant hoping to turn base metal into gold. Aquatint after T. Rowlandson.
  • Ratudhvaja courting Madalasa with the help of a female chaperone. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
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    A prim older woman looks disapprovingly as a young couple walk off together arm in arm. Engraving by J. Brain after J.J. Jenkins.

    Jenkins, Joseph John, 1811-1885. | Date: 1838 | Reference: 27662i
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    A young man working in a watermill holds a large flat basket of bran and gazes adoringly at a young woman as she measures out bran into a drum. Lithograph after Jules David.

    David, Jules, 1808-1892. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 29618i
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    A man and a woman seated under a tree, with cattle nearby. Lithograph by H. Lecomte, 1819.

    Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857. | Date: 1819 | Reference: 3043824i
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    The Annunciation to the Virgin. Engraving by C. Cort after Titian.

    Titian, approximately 1488-1576. | Date: 1500-1599 | Reference: 21627i
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    Love, hand drawn illustration

    Lester Magoogan
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