The Arnolfini Portrait by Van EyckThe Arnolfini Portrait. 1434. By Jan van Eyck (1394-1441). Oil on oak panel. National Gallery. London. Great Britain
Persephone & DemeterPersephone (Proserpina) is reunited for the Spring and Summer with her mother Demeter (Ceres) until each Autumn and Winter, when she must return to her husband Pluto (Hades)
sleeping on Blackpool promAn elderly couple lie back on the wrought iron seats on Blackpool Pier for a snooze. The beach and Blackpool Tower are in the background. Date: circa 1970
Saint Rita PrayingSAINT RITA OF CASCIA Italian peasant woman who survived a brutal husband to become a nun and saint - depicted at prayer Date: 1377 - 1447
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton - actorsElizabeth Taylor (1932-2011), British-American actress, embraces her husband Richard Burton (1925-1984), Welsh actor. Date: 1966
Beryl GreyDame Beryl Elizabeth Grey (b. 1927) English ballet dancer with husband Sven Svenson and their baby son Ingvar Neil
Amy Johnson Says GoodbyeAmy Johnson (Mrs Mollison) leaves Lympne in Hearts Content on her record attempt to South America. Here she kisses her husband goodbye. Date: 6 February 1933
Suffragette Hen Pecked Husband Suffers. Poor Hen-Pecked husband cleans out the fire while wife tells him what to do. Caption reads, My Wifes joined the suffrage movement
Queen Victoria and Prince AlbertQueen Victoria (1819-1901) stares lovingly into the face of her beloved husband Prince Consort Albert (1819-1861). Date: circa 1950s
Horrors, my wife! by Webster MurrayWife tracks her husband down, under the sea in a diving suit having an affair with attractive mermaid. Date: 1928
Princess Alice with Grand Duke Louis of HessePrincess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hess with her husband, Grand Duke Louis (Ludwig IV) of Hesse (1843-1878). Alice was Queen Victorias third child and second daughter
Theatre, A Cuckoo in the Nest 1925, NermanA scene from A Cuckoo in the Nest, a popular farce playing in London in 1925. Here, the impeccable husband is discovered by his wife and in-laws in a ladys bedroom (equally impeccable)
Princess Alice of Great Britain & Grand Duke Louis of HessePrincess Alice (1843-1878), third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert pictured here around the time of her marriage with her husband Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse-Darmstadt
The Hesse-Cassel and Greek royal familiesThe youngest daughters of Vicky, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Empress of Prussia, the Princesses Sophie and Margarete of Prussia with their husbands and children at Friedrichshof in 1904
Queen Victoria at her deskPhotographic study of Queen Victoria at her writing desk. Taken in 1882, a framed portrait of her late husband Prince Albert on the desk
Knitting SweetheartSassy wartime woman lounging in a chair knitting while a portrait of her boyfriend or husband smiles from the canvas
Flood at Johnstown / USAA mother watches helplessly as her husband and young duaghter are swept away by the raging waters of a flood that hit Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Illicit / Cuckold 1840The hunter and his horns
Tightrope Cycling ActA German husband and wife team perform a dramatic tightrope cycling act
Returning home
Catherine the Great / CoupWith the support of the Imperial Guard, Catherine the Great overthrows her husband, Peter III, to become Empress of All Russia
Singer in BulgariaThis Bulgarian lady, like her husband and her daughter, is wearing her flamboyant regional costume as she treadles away at her Singer
Saint JosephSAINT JOSEPH putative or nominal father of Jesus of Nazareth, husband of Mary, woodworker by trade: credited with royal descent from David, King of Israel
Eleanor on CrusadesEleanor of Aquitaine (or of Guyenne) rides east with her husband, Louis VII; but her carryings-on with Raymond of Antioch will lead to divorce, and marriage to Henry II
Prince Louis of Battenberg, Prince & Princess Andrew of GreePrince Louis of Battenberg (seated left), 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, later Lord Louis Alexander Mountbatten, pictured with his eldest daughter, Princess Alice of Greece (1885-1969)
Advertisement for the Western Electric vacuum cleaner with a women patiently cleaning the carpet around her snoozing husband. Lets hope that cigarette falls into his lap and wakes him up. Date: c.1924
Wedding Bells of the 1913 Season Freda Dudley WardWinifred Birkin on her wedding day arriving at St. Margaret s, Westminster for her marriage to William Dudley Ward. Winifred, better known as Freda Dudley Ward (1894-1983)
UFO photographed at McMinnville, Oregon, USAA UFO photographed by Mrs Paul Trent, who saw it with her husband at McMinnville, Oregon, USA. UFOs had frequently been seen previously in the area
Reprisal! by H M Bateman - humorous illustration of what can happen if a woman decides to wear trousers. In this scene the reprisal for the wife wearing trousers is that her husband has taken to
Saint HumbelineSAINT HUMBELINE sister of Bernard of Clairvaux, who wrote her letters reproaching her for her worldly lifestyle so she left her husband and became a nun Date: 12th century
Saint Rita of CasciaSAINT RITA OF CASCIA Italian peasant woman who survived a brutal husband to become a nun and saint Date: 1377 - 1447
Suffragette W. S. P. U Pinner Constance LyttonSuffragette W.S.P.U Pinner Constance Lytton. The Pinner, Middlesex, branch of the Womens Social and Political Union, captioned on reverse, W.S.P.U Garden Party given by Mr. & Mrs
Melusine RevealedMelusines fairy nature is discovered by her husband, Raymond de Lusignan, and she has to leave him for ever
Nerium or oleander, Nerium oleander (Nerium odorum). Handcoloured lithograph by D. Blair after an illustration by Lena Lowis from her Familiar Indian Flowers with Coloured Plates, L
Catholic Kings, Isabella and Ferdinand. Spain. Colored engraCatholic Kings, Isabella I (1451-1504) and Ferdinand II (1452-1516). Engraving. Colored
Advertisement for Silvikrin hair products -- male and female models posing. 1959
Princess Baa of the Ashanti and her husband - GhanaPrincess Baa of the Ashanti and her husband from Ghana - pictured outside the Gold Coast Pavillion at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Park in 1924
A problem of income - couple trying to balance the booksA problem of income. Grenville and Sue Collins trying to balance the books as they await the Mary Evans Picture Library Royalty Statement...! Date: circa 1910s
Mr & Mrs John D. Rockefeller 3rd return from HoneymoonMr and Mrs John D. Rockefeller III (1906-1978) return from their Honeymoon in Bermuda on the Monarch of Bermuda, 15th December 1932
Royal Wedding 1904 -- Houses of Albany and TeckPrincess Alice of Albany, later Countess of Athlone (seated) (1883-1981) and Prince Alexander of Teck, later Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874-1957), photographed on their wedding day
Portrait of Prince Albert as a young manPortrait of Prince Albert, Saxe-Coburg, husband of Queen Victoria as a young man. Engraved from a photograph
Queen Victoria and her familyQueen Victoria shown with members of her family shortly after the wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales, mourning a bust of her late husband, Prince Albert
Princess Alice and Victoria of HessePrincess Alice (1843-1878), second daughter and third child of Queen Victoria, pictured in Scotland with her eldest child, Princess Victoria of Hesse
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg with familyPrincess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg (1884-1966), fourth and youngest daughter of Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and his wife, Maria Alexandrovna (later Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg)
Princesses Alice and VickyQueen Victorias two eldest daughters: on the right, Vicky, Princess Royal, Crown Princess, later Empress of Prussia (1840-1901) and Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse (1843-1878)
Wife Catches Husband 19CRealisation: the wife finds her erring husband dining with two strange women
Spirit Photo MumlerPhoto by William Mumler, showing Mrs Lincoln with the spirit of her husband, Abraham Lincoln
Odysseus returns to his wife, Penelope
