Matrimony Collection

Dogs Get Married
Two dogs are joined in holy matrimony by a dog in holy orders (who is doubtless wearing a dog collar beneath his robes) late 19th century

Japanese Wedding Ceremony series - Bride and Parents-in-Law. The bride performing a rite of drinking sake with her husbands parents in order to express the true heart of loving each other tenderly as

Japanese Wedding Ceremony series - Drinking Sake
Japanese Wedding Ceremony - Bride and Bridegroom each drink Sake nine times to fasten the ties of matrimony - the most important ritual act in marriage. Date: circa 1910s

Late Victorian Wedding party
A superb photograph of late Victorian Wedding party focusing on the bridal group. All show perfect serious face expressions, in keeping with the formality of the occasion (it seems!). Date: circa 1895

Prince Albert and Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Marriage Certificate
The Marriage Certificate for the wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York (1895-1952) (later King George VI) to Elizabeth Bowes Lyon (1900-2002) (later Elizabeth)

Land of Matrimony

Sea of Matrimony

Mahuwa tree, Madhuca longifolia. (Bassia longifolia, Bassia di lunghe foglie.) Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Front cover of How to be Happy though Married, E J Hardy
Colour front cover of How to be Happy though Married, Being a Handbook to Marriage by Reverend E J Hardy. Published by T Fisher Unwin, London, 1885. Date: 1885

Kids Mock Wedding Date: 1948

Newlyweds with Presents Date: 1950

Spry Maid Snags Bouquet Date: 1950

Newlyweds Beginning Date: 1947

Wedding Ceremony

Tandem Bride and Groom Date: 1897

Wedding Ceremony Date: 1933

Copy of Etruscan wall painting. Tomb of the Shields. c. 350
Etruscan Art. Copy of Etruscan wall painting. Tempera on canvas 1900. Tomb of the Shields. Tarquinia, Italy c. 350 BC. Velhur Velcha and his wife, Ravnthu Aprthnei. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Denmark

Jupiter, Juno and Ceres.. Handcolored copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from Mythology in Prints, or Figures of Fabled Gods

Marriage Certificate - 1904
Marriage Certificate of William Cottee Woods and Edith Frances Pooley. Woods Father was a Shipowner and Pooleys Father was a Stockbroker. Date: 1904

Pierce Egans Anecdotes: cartoon forced marriage pregnant b
Colour plate: A paris concern or prominent reasons for matrimony shows onlookers mocking couple in street scene from from Pierce Egans anecdotes of the turf, the chase, the ring and the stage, 1827

Divorce. by Ballarin, 1877
Divorce. Engraving by Ballarin, 1877. Colored

Maria I (1734-1816) Queen of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves. Peter III of Portugal (1717-1786). Engraving. 19th century. Colored

Stela fo Sensebek. 12th Dynasty. Limestone. Middle Kingdom
Stela fo Sensebek. 12th Dynasty. Limestone. About 1850 BC. Middle Kingdom. He is shown with his wife an offering table and the text to the left is an offering formul

Stela fo Sensebek. Detail. 12th Dynasty. Limestone. Middle K
Stela fo Sensebek. 12th Dynasty. Limestone. About 1850 BC. Middle Kingdom. Detail. Text on the right. Hymn to Wepwawet and Osiris. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Greek Art. Munich Lekythos. Grave monument in the form of an oil flask (lekythos). About 370 BC. As a sing of their attachment the couple reach out their hands to each other. Gyptothek. Munich

Roman Marriage Ceremony
A man and woman are joined in holy matrimony

Dog wedding in a church, with a dog bride, dog bridegroom and dog vicar. Date: circa 1890s

The Threatened Slump in Husbands: post WW1 polgamy imagined
The Bystander takes a humourous look in 1915 at the marriage problems that may arise after the war is over. C.E Peto imagines the social consequences of polgamy becoming permissable in the wake of

Japanese Wedding Ceremony series - Midwife assist with baby
Japanese Wedding Ceremony series - A Midwife assists with bathing the firstborn baby (first parturition). Date: circa 1910s

Japanese Wedding Ceremony series - Motherhood - the Mother cherishing her Baby. Date: circa 1910s

Japanese Wedding Ceremony series - After the ceremony, the bride heads off to bed with sweet hope ! Date: circa 1910s

Japanese Wedding Ceremony series - Changing wedding dress
Japanese Wedding Ceremony series - The bride changing her wedding dress (Shiromuku) for another ceremonial dress, mostly embroidered silk. Date: circa 1910s

Married for Luxury
A humorous American postcard with the title Married for Luxury, depicting a couple who are anything but, tucking into a very meagre repast, with even the dog bemoaning the bum grub ! Date: circa 1910s

France. Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise of Austria, 1810. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

Gretna Green Anvil and Richard Rennison
Richard Rennison - the Gretna Green Anvil Priest 1926 - 1940, pictured with books recording over 2000 marriages overseen at the Old Blacksmiths Shop at Gretna in seven years

The Kitchenmaid and the Constable
A humourous photograph of a kitchenmaid, busy doing the washing up, being proposed to by her policeman admirer. The photograph is entitled Cupboard Love

Reconstruction in Matrimony
State encouragement of marriage for returned soldiers. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Thoughts on Matrimony

Russia / 1921 / Marriage
Even communists need ritual ceremonies ! A pair of Russians are joined in unholy matrimony in a civil marriage by a provincial commissar under a Red Flag

Crinoline Prevents Kiss
Adolphus is foiled in his attempts to obtain a kiss from his beloved. The new fashion is proving a barrier to matrimony and intimacy between the sexes

Marriage of Dauphin / 1745
The marriage ceremony of Louis, Dauphin of France and his bride Marie-Therese, the infanta of Spain in the chapel of the Palace of Versailles

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