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Savitri pleading with Yama for her husband's life. Chromolithograph.
Reference: 26220i
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A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
George CruikshankDate: 1847Reference: 25973i
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Two women run towards a transit goods van to greet the driver who has avoided AIDS to drive home to be with his wife; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Lithograph, ca. 1990's.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 678824i
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Three Indian women dressed in saris sit together with the message that men deserve to go abroad to make money but to avoid foreign women to prevent the spread of AIDS in his own home; an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by S. Ghosh for Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
Date: March 1995Reference: 677443i
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A faithful young woman. Drawing, c. 1793.
Date: 1793?Reference: 31577i
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Ganesha with two of his wives Siddhi and Buddhi surrounded by six female attendants. Chromolithograph.
Reference: 26458i
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The English wife : a manual of home duties / by the author of 'The English maiden ...' [i.e. Artemas Bowers Muzzey].
A. B. MuzzeyDate: 1843
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A woman wearing a fine dress with pearls around her neck, a very elaborate hair style and beauty spots, checks her appearance in a mirror before going out to the new fashionable resort of the Pantheon in London. Mezzotint by P. Dawe, 1772.
Philip DaweDate: Sep.r 3 1772Reference: 35493i
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Cotton spinning couple. Watercolour drawing.
Reference: 28365i
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Kavady-kerah and wife: holy water carrier. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 32440i
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Ganesha and his two wives, Siddhi and Buddhi, surrounded by six attendants and his rats. Chromolithograph.
Reference: 26460i
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A sick husband holds the hand of his wife. Lithograph by C. Motte after A. Maurin after H. Decaisne, 182-.
Henri DecaisneDate: [182?-]Reference: 17163i
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Indian hunter and wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 32743i
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A Moorish man with wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 32684i
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An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps in the dim background, a baby clasped to her breast. Coloured lithograph by Bouvier, 1830, after J. Steen.
Jan SteenDate: January 1830Reference: 35485i
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A pregnant woman leading a donkey on which a discharged veteran, who has lost both his legs, is sitting carrying one of their children in a bucket. Etching with engraving by J. Caldwell after J. Collet, 1775.
John CollettDate: 30 May 1775Reference: 43853i
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A Hindu warrior and his wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28838i
Books
The evolution of Nettie Huxley, 1825-1914 / Martin Huxley Cooke.
Cooke, Martin Huxley.Date: 2008
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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 man reads a book while his wife cuts his toenails. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli, c. 1800.
Piattoli, Giuseppe, active 1785-1807.Reference: 18019i
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A group of three 'puffers' (uninitiated alchemists) reading books, and a credulous peasant trying his luck at alchemy, his weeping wife and miserable child trying to detain him from alchemical pursuit. Engraving by F. Godefroy after J. Steen.
Jan SteenReference: 35486i
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Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26373i
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Hindu toddy man and wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 31914i
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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 drunken husband lies sleeping as his young wife plots furtively with her lover, a foreign soldier. Engraving by A. Capellan after G. B. Piazzetta.
Giovanni Battista PiazzettaDate: 1700-1799Reference: 26936i