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Wedding costume

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  • The wise virgins take their lamps to the newly married couple; the foolish virgins sleep. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after D.H. Friston.
  • A reformed and fashionable gentleman exits from the church with his beautiful bride. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • Two groups of bridesmaids wait by a bridge: one with candles, the other dejectedly staring at the ground; representing the biblical parable of the wise and foolish virgins. Etching by X. Steifensand after J.F. Overbeck, 1844.
  • The wedding outfits of a couple on hangers beside a table with a wedding bouquet of flowers representing an advertisement for the Program on AIDS by the Thai Red Cross Society. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A young couple visiting a draper's shop to choose material for a wedding gown. Engraving by Frederick A. Heath after W. Mulready.
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Catalogue

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    A young woman in her wedding dress holding flowers. Engraving by J. Cochran after A.E. Chalon.

    Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 28392i
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    A reformed and fashionable gentleman exits from the church with his beautiful bride. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.

    Wilson, T. C. | Date: [1840?] | Reference: 25955i
    Part of: The life of a working man
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    The wedding outfits of a couple on hangers beside a table with a wedding bouquet of flowers representing an advertisement for the Program on AIDS by the Thai Red Cross Society. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

    | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 678043i
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    The wedding ceremony of two deaf and dumb people conducted in sign language. Process print after H. Ash.

    | Reference: 17977i
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    Two groups of bridesmaids wait by a bridge: one with candles, the other dejectedly staring at the ground; representing the biblical parable of the wise and foolish virgins. Etching by X. Steifensand after J.F. Overbeck, 1844.

    Overbeck, Johann Friedrich, 1789-1869. | Date: 1844 | Reference: 23564i
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