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Husband Collection

Background imageHusband Collection: The Arnolfini Portrait by Van Eyck

The Arnolfini Portrait by Van Eyck
The Arnolfini Portrait. 1434. By Jan van Eyck (1394-1441). Oil on oak panel. National Gallery. London. Great Britain

Background imageHusband Collection: Persephone & Demeter

Persephone & Demeter
Persephone (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)

Background imageHusband Collection: Singer in Bulgaria

Singer in Bulgaria
This Bulgarian lady, like her husband and her daughter, is wearing her flamboyant regional costume as she treadles away at her Singer

Background imageHusband Collection: Saint Rita Praying

Saint Rita Praying
SAINT RITA OF CASCIA Italian peasant woman who survived a brutal husband to become a nun and saint - depicted at prayer Date: 1377 - 1447

Background imageHusband Collection: sleeping on Blackpool prom

sleeping on Blackpool prom
An 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

Background imageHusband Collection: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton - actors

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton - actors
Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011), British-American actress, embraces her husband Richard Burton (1925-1984), Welsh actor. Date: 1966

Background imageHusband Collection: Amy Johnson Says Goodbye

Amy Johnson Says Goodbye
Amy 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

Background imageHusband Collection: Suffragette Hen Pecked Husband Suffers

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

Background imageHusband Collection: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) stares lovingly into the face of her beloved husband Prince Consort Albert (1819-1861). Date: circa 1950s

Background imageHusband Collection: Princess Alice with Grand Duke Louis of Hesse

Princess Alice with Grand Duke Louis of Hesse
Princess 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

Background imageHusband Collection: Theatre, A Cuckoo in the Nest 1925, Nerman

Theatre, A Cuckoo in the Nest 1925, Nerman
A 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)

Background imageHusband Collection: Princess Alice of Great Britain & Grand Duke Louis of Hesse

Princess Alice of Great Britain & Grand Duke Louis of Hesse
Princess 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

Background imageHusband Collection: The Hesse-Cassel and Greek royal families

The Hesse-Cassel and Greek royal families
The 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

Background imageHusband Collection: W. Heath Robinson

W. Heath Robinson
Cartoon, To the Last Drop. A justly incensed spouse shouts, Good Heavens, hes got the thermos as her husband falls over a cliff

Background imageHusband Collection: Queen Victoria at her desk

Queen Victoria at her desk
Photographic study of Queen Victoria at her writing desk. Taken in 1882, a framed portrait of her late husband Prince Albert on the desk

Background imageHusband Collection: Beryl Grey

Beryl Grey
Dame Beryl Elizabeth Grey (b. 1927) English ballet dancer with husband Sven Svenson and their baby son Ingvar Neil

Background imageHusband Collection: Knitting Sweetheart

Knitting Sweetheart
Sassy wartime woman lounging in a chair knitting while a portrait of her boyfriend or husband smiles from the canvas

Background imageHusband Collection: Flood at Johnstown / USA

Flood at Johnstown / USA
A mother watches helplessly as her husband and young duaghter are swept away by the raging waters of a flood that hit Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Background imageHusband Collection: Illicit / Cuckold 1840

Illicit / Cuckold 1840
The hunter and his horns

Background imageHusband Collection: Horrors, my wife! by Webster Murray

Horrors, my wife! by Webster Murray
Wife tracks her husband down, under the sea in a diving suit having an affair with attractive mermaid. Date: 1928

Background imageHusband Collection: Tightrope Cycling Act

Tightrope Cycling Act
A German husband and wife team perform a dramatic tightrope cycling act

Background imageHusband Collection: Returning home

Returning home

Background imageHusband Collection: Catherine the Great / Coup

Catherine the Great / Coup
With the support of the Imperial Guard, Catherine the Great overthrows her husband, Peter III, to become Empress of All Russia

Background imageHusband Collection: Eleanor on Crusades

Eleanor on Crusades
Eleanor 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

Background imageHusband Collection: Saint Joseph

Saint Joseph
SAINT JOSEPH putative or nominal father of Jesus of Nazareth, husband of Mary, woodworker by trade: credited with royal descent from David, King of Israel

Background imageHusband Collection: Stele of Roma the doorkeeper dedicated to Goddess Astarte. E

Stele of Roma the doorkeeper dedicated to Goddess Astarte. E
Stele of Roma the doorkeeper dedicated to Goddess Astarte. Limestone. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. C. 1400-1365 BC. Origin unknown. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Background imageHusband Collection: UFO photographed at McMinnville, Oregon, USA

UFO photographed at McMinnville, Oregon, USA
A 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

Background imageHusband Collection: Prince Louis of Battenberg, Prince & Princess Andrew of Gree

Prince Louis of Battenberg, Prince & Princess Andrew of Gree
Prince 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)

Background imageHusband Collection: Advertisement for the Western Electric vacuum cleaner with a women patiently cleaning

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

Background imageHusband Collection: Wedding Bells of the 1913 Season Freda Dudley Ward

Wedding Bells of the 1913 Season Freda Dudley Ward
Winifred 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)

Background imageHusband Collection: Reprisal! by H M Bateman

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

Background imageHusband Collection: Portrait of a Couple, c. 1622, by Frans Hals (c. 1582-1666)

Portrait of a Couple, c. 1622, by Frans Hals (c. 1582-1666)
Frans Hals (c. 1582-1666). Dutch painter. Portrait of a Couple, probably Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen, c. 1622. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Background imageHusband Collection: Saint Humbeline

Saint Humbeline
SAINT 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

Background imageHusband Collection: Saint Rita of Cascia

Saint Rita of Cascia
SAINT RITA OF CASCIA Italian peasant woman who survived a brutal husband to become a nun and saint Date: 1377 - 1447

Background imageHusband Collection: Wallis Simpson

Wallis Simpson
A glamorous studio portrait of Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, later Duchess of Windsor (1896-1986), American socialite. Born in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, she divorced her second husband

Background imageHusband Collection: Melusine Revealed

Melusine Revealed
Melusines fairy nature is discovered by her husband, Raymond de Lusignan, and she has to leave him for ever

Background imageHusband Collection: Catholic Kings, Isabella and Ferdinand. Spain. Colored engra

Catholic Kings, Isabella and Ferdinand. Spain. Colored engra
Catholic Kings, Isabella I (1451-1504) and Ferdinand II (1452-1516). Engraving. Colored

Background imageHusband Collection: Suffragette W. S. P. U Pinner Constance Lytton

Suffragette W. S. P. U Pinner Constance Lytton
Suffragette 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

Background imageHusband Collection: Advertisement for Silvikrin hair products

Advertisement for Silvikrin hair products -- male and female models posing. 1959

Background imageHusband Collection: Princess Baa of the Ashanti and her husband - Ghana

Princess Baa of the Ashanti and her husband - Ghana
Princess 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

Background imageHusband Collection: A problem of income - couple trying to balance the books

A problem of income - couple trying to balance the books
A 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

Background imageHusband Collection: Mr & Mrs John D. Rockefeller 3rd return from Honeymoon

Mr & Mrs John D. Rockefeller 3rd return from Honeymoon
Mr and Mrs John D. Rockefeller III (1906-1978) return from their Honeymoon in Bermuda on the Monarch of Bermuda, 15th December 1932

Background imageHusband Collection: Molly Pitcher. The Heroine of Monmouth

Molly Pitcher. The Heroine of Monmouth
The Heroine of Monmouth. Molly Pitcher, the wife of a Gunner in the American Army, who when her husband was killed, took his place at the gun

Background imageHusband Collection: Royal Wedding 1904 -- Houses of Albany and Teck

Royal Wedding 1904 -- Houses of Albany and Teck
Princess 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

Background imageHusband Collection: Portrait of Prince Albert as a young man

Portrait of Prince Albert as a young man
Portrait of Prince Albert, Saxe-Coburg, husband of Queen Victoria as a young man. Engraved from a photograph

Background imageHusband Collection: Queen Victoria and her family

Queen Victoria and her family
Queen 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

Background imageHusband Collection: Princess Alice and Victoria of Hesse

Princess Alice and Victoria of Hesse
Princess Alice (1843-1878), second daughter and third child of Queen Victoria, pictured in Scotland with her eldest child, Princess Victoria of Hesse

Background imageHusband Collection: Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg with family

Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg with family
Princess 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)



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