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Two women run towards a transit goods van to greet the driver who has avoided AIDS to be home with his wife (coloured version); an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Lithograph, ca. 1995.

Ganesha and his two wives, Siddhi and Buddhi, surrounded by six attendants and his rats. Chromolithograph.

A drunken man sits at home with his family who must pawn their clothes to pay for his habit. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

A soldier returns and goes first to embrace his child, his wife in the background waves to remind him of her presence also. Wood engraving by Benedict after Berthold Woltze.

Hindu barber and wife. Gouache drawing.

A Sikh soldier with his wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

A convalescent soldier from Waterloo sitting with his wife and children. Engraving by G.T. Doo, 1847, after W. Mulready.

Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.

A fashionably dressed apothecary's wife. Coloured etching by M. Darly, 1774.

An Indian commandant: his wife handing him some betel leaves. Gouache drawing.

Savitri pleading with Yama for her husband's life. Chromolithograph.

A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

Two women run towards a transit goods van to greet the driver who has avoided AIDS to drive home to be with his wife; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Lithograph, ca. 1990's.

Three Indian women dressed in saris sit together with the message that men deserve to go abroad to make money but to avoid foreign women to prevent the spread of AIDS in his own home; an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by S. Ghosh for Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.

A faithful young woman. Drawing, c. 1793.

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Savitri pleading with Yama for her husband's life. Chromolithograph.

A man sits at home with his family and offers his wife a drink. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.

Two women run towards a transit goods van to greet the driver who has avoided AIDS to drive home to be with his wife; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Lithograph, ca. 1990's.

A faithful young woman. Drawing, c. 1793.