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A bearded man lying in bed, his hand held by his wife who is seated next to the bed. Photograph, 187-.

Mrs Pottleton thinks her husband is going to give her a harmonium but he gives her a sewing machine instead. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1869.

Roman portrait busts of wife and husband. Line engraving with etching by H.L. Garnier after J.M.N. Bralle.

A man and a woman are counting their money with Death watching, armed with hourglass and scythe. Mezzotint by I. Meheux.

Surgeon Major and Mrs Gunning. Photograph.

The ghost of Ravia, dressed in white with blood on her dress, appears to her husband Cazem during a storm at night, in front of Gothic ruins, and asks him to avenge her murder. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1810.

Xanthippe rides on the back of Socrates with a whip in her hand. Mezzotint by J. Smith after HG.

A couple lie in bed, the woman has her hands and feet padlocked into stocks at each end of the bed, and her husband has a whip. Coloured aquatint. after J.F.

John Anderson and his wife seated by a fire in a modest house; a cat sleeping on a stool in front of the chimney. Woodcut after R. Burns, 18--.

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.

Domestic violence: a man beating his wife with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

Domestic violence: a wife beating her husband with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

David Copperfield as a boy enters the study of Dr Strong who is absorbed in lexicographic work; his young wife Annie is sitting on a stool at his feet. Etching by Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne), 1849.

A farmer and his wife contemplating their full-grown crop in a field ready for harvest. Colour lithograph, 18--.

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Domestic violence: a man beating his wife with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

Domestic violence: a wife beating her husband with a shoe. Watercolour drawing.

A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.

David Copperfield as a boy enters the study of Dr Strong who is absorbed in lexicographic work; his young wife Annie is sitting on a stool at his feet. Etching by Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne), 1849.

A farmer and his wife contemplating their full-grown crop in a field ready for harvest. Colour lithograph, 18--.