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M. de Mélincourt sets off for the hunt saying farewell to his wife, while his son is having shooting lessons. Engraving.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 34701i
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A woman and a man cuddling and rubbing noses; representing the need for protection from the risk of contracting AIDS, even for apparently faithful couples. Colour lithograph, 199-.
Federal Institute of Public HealthDate: [between 1990 and 1999?]Reference: 666348i
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A soldier introducing his wife to his comrades, who are getting drunk outside their barracks. Lithograph after N.T. Charlet.
Nicolas Toussaint CharletDate: [between 1824 and 1827]Reference: 35364i
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Fragments of a funerary chamber opposite the church of San Sebastiano fuori le Mura, Rome. Etching by G.B. Piranesi and J. Barbault, ca. 1756.
Giovanni Battista PiranesiDate: [1756?]Reference: 2008462i
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An old man sits with his arm round a girl and plies her with drink as his wife watches through a window. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1747, after D. Teniers.
David Teniers the YoungerDate: [1747]Reference: 26801i
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A woman (May) leads a man (January) under a tree in which there is somone hiding and some onlookers are pointing at the scene. Engraving by C. Mosley after S. Wale.
Samuel WaleDate: [1752]Reference: 28462i
Ephemera
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Damon's advice to Chloe, or, Darby and Joan.
Date: [between 1849 and 1854?]
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Jean Calas says farewell to his wife before he is executed. Drawing, c. 1789, after D.N. Chodowiecki.
Daniel Nikolaus ChodowieckiDate: [1789?]Reference: 29008i
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A wife, her physiognomy expressing good temper and humour according to Lavater. Drawing, c. 1789.
Date: c. 1789Reference: 28704i
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A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
Smith, George, 1829-1901.Date: [1871]Reference: 574955i
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A young couple embrace and their companions weep and look hopeful. Aquatint by C. Hunt, 1853, after T. Onwhyn.
Thomas OnwhynDate: 1853Reference: 28568i
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A newly married couple walking down the country road, viewed from behind; representing commitment of the kind required for organ donation. Colour lithograph, 199-.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999?]Reference: 729402i
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Domestic violence: a husband holding his wife by the hair about to strike her with a shoe, while she tries to defend herself with a broom. Watercolour drawing.
Reference: 26869i
Books
Special exits : a graphic memoir / Joyce Farmer.
Joyce FarmerDate: 2014
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A man and a woman are counting their money with Death watching, armed with hourglass and scythe. Mezzotint by I. Meheux.
Meheux, Jacques.Reference: 34902i
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A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Mezzotint by J. Simon, 17--, after Etienne Jeaurat.
Jeaurat, Etienne, 1699-1789.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 22263i
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An old man dozing in a chair; representing the eightieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.
Conrad MeyerDate: 1600-1699Reference: 26389i
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Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: a Cantonese bride and groom. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
John ThomsonDate: 1869Reference: 19586i
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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.
Pegram, Frederick, 1870-Date: 1934Reference: 15516i
Books
He can't help it. : It's alzheimer's : a husband and wife's battle with dementia of the Alzheimer's type / Dorothy F. Steele.
Steele, Dorothy F.Date: [2016]
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Two hunters with hounds have entered a bedroom to summon another hunter whose wife does not want him to leave. Mezzotint, 17--.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 34655i
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A married couple who have begun physically to resemble each other. Drawing, c. 1794.
Date: 1794?Reference: 30201i
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A man pulling a doctor down the path to his house to see his wife whom he thinks is ill because she doesn't want to go to the sales. Process print after J. Lee, 1934.
Joseph LeeDate: 1934Reference: 15518i
Books
Mating in captivity : sex, lies and domestic bliss / Esther Perel.
Esther PerelDate: 2007
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A young couple visit a savant who consults ancient volumes in order to provide counselling to them. Oil painting by Edouard-Henri-Théophile Pingret, 1833 (?).
Édouard PingretDate: [1833?]Reference: 646212i