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A map of Zambia containing numerous women saying no to sex before marriage; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Anti-AIDS Project and Copperbelt Health Education Project in Zambia. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

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. Engraving by J.J. Balechou, 1743, after E. Jeaurat.

A man of occult learning arrives at the house of a cobbler and his wife: the cobbler insults him, the wife defends him. Coloured engraving by L. Truchy after F. Hayman.

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.

Damon's advice to Chloe, or, Darby and Joan.

Rembrandt, portrayed perhaps as the prodigal son, stands with his arm round a lady (represented by his wife Saskia) by a banquet table and raises his glass. Lithograph after Rembrandt van Rijn.

A woman sitting next to her husband and breast feeding her child. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.

A man seated in a barrel with his head under a glass canopy; he breathes and his pulse is taken; Lavoisier dictates to his wife who is writing a report. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.

Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: a Cantonese bride and groom. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

Psychotherapy with couples : theory and practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies / edited by Stanley Ruszczynski ; foreword by David E. Scharff.

Spouses: the merits of married life. Engraving by Crispijn van de Passe the younger, 163-.

Elisa, seated in her favourite place in her husband's country park, sees a man approach her through the trees: it is her husband, the Marquis de Volange, whom she imagines to be a sprite called Valoë. Engraving by J. Collyer, 1788, after T. Stothard.

A doctor asking his patients husband how she is, he replies (amidst a devasted room) that he's not sure but she certainly has a temper. Wood engraving by H ..., 1904.

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A map of Zambia containing numerous women saying no to sex before marriage; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Anti-AIDS Project and Copperbelt Health Education Project in Zambia. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Psychotherapy with couples : theory and practice at the Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies / edited by Stanley Ruszczynski ; foreword by David E. Scharff.

Spouses: the merits of married life. Engraving by Crispijn van de Passe the younger, 163-.

Elisa, seated in her favourite place in her husband's country park, sees a man approach her through the trees: it is her husband, the Marquis de Volange, whom she imagines to be a sprite called Valoë. Engraving by J. Collyer, 1788, after T. Stothard.

A doctor asking his patients husband how she is, he replies (amidst a devasted room) that he's not sure but she certainly has a temper. Wood engraving by H ..., 1904.