Domestic Violence Collection

The Plasterer Toyokichi Murdering His Mistress Oei and Her Family, c1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Plasterer Toyokichi Murdering His Mistress Oei and Her Family, c1875. Series: The Postal News, No. 649

Kino Stabbing Her Husband with a Fruit Knife, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Kino Stabbing Her Husband with a Fruit Knife, 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 471

A Horrible Suicide: A Woman Slays Her Child then Kills Herself, 1879. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
A Horrible Suicide: A Woman Slays Her Child then Kills Herself, 1879. Series: The Kanayomi Newspaper, No. 808

Tajima Seitaro Murders His Wife When She Refuses to Return to Him, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Tajima Seitaro Murders His Wife When She Refuses to Return to Him, 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 565

My Old Mother-in-Law is Always Ready to Scold without Any Reason, n.d. Creator: Manuel Manilla
My Old Mother-in-Law is Always Ready to Scold without Any Reason, n.d

Now My Old Mother-in-Law... n.d. Creator: Manuel Manilla
Now My Old Mother-in-Law... n.d

Quarrel between Mother-in-law and Son-in-law, n.d. Creator: Manuel Manilla
Quarrel between Mother-in-law and Son-in-law, n.d

Pleito de la suegra con su yerno (Fight of the Mother-in-Law With Her Son-in-Law), n.d. Creator: Manuel Manilla
Pleito de la suegra con su yerno (Fight of the Mother-in-Law With Her Son-in-Law), n.d

Man standing over cowering woman, 1952. Creator: Shirley Markham
Man standing over cowering woman, 1952. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952

The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro II as Yoemon and Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III as Kasane... Japan, c. 1771. Creator: Shunsho
The Actors Matsumoto Koshiro II as Yoemon and Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III as Kasane, His Wife, Japan, c. 1771

Cupid Chastised, 1613. Creator: Bartolomeo Manfredi
Cupid Chastised, 1613

Gioco Delle Donne, E Sue Facende (Game of Wives, And Their Chores), 1654-1718
Gioco Delle Donne, E Sue Facende (Game of Wives [or Women], And Their Chores), 1654-1718. Board game: a woman spends all day doing housework, only to be beaten with a stick by her husband

The Angry Wife, c. 1495 / 1503. Creator: Israhel van Meckenem
The Angry Wife, c. 1495/1503

The Wife-Beater, ca. 1633. Creator: Abraham Bosse
The Wife-Beater, ca. 1633

Husband-Beater, ca. 1633. Creator: Abraham Bosse
Husband-Beater, ca. 1633

The Cobblers Cure for a Scolding Wife, 1813. 1813. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
The Cobblers Cure for a Scolding Wife, 1813

Elizabeth Brownrigg, Executed for Cruelty & Murder, 1822. Creator: Robert Cooper
Elizabeth Brownrigg, Executed for Cruelty & Murder, 1822. Portrait of Elizabeth Brownrigg (1720-1767) who was convicted of murder and hanged at Tyburn (in London) in 1767

Mrs. Brownrigg, (c1872). Creator: Unknown
Mrs. Brownrigg, (c1872). Elizabeth Brownrigg (1720-1767) was convicted of murder and hanged at Tyburn (in London) in 1767

Stick seller, Cries of London, 1760. Artist: Paul Sandby
Stick seller, 1760. A ragged stick seller and two background views; to the left a woman is holding a stick over her kneeling husband and twisting his nose

Black Eyed Sue the bold smuggler and Will Watch the look out man, 1829. Artist: George Cruikshank
Black Eyed Sue the bold smuggler and Will Watch the look out man, 1829. From Scraps & Sketches by George Cruikshank. [George Cruikshank, London, 1829]

Judge Thumb or Sticks of a Lawful Size for Family Discipline, 1782. A judge says: Heres amusement for married Gentlemen or, a Specific for a Scolding Wife; Who buys of me

The Demon Rough, 1874. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Demon Rough, 1874. A bestial labourer crouches over the limp body of his wife whilst Justice stands over him, her scales and sword on her belt, and the cat o nine tails in her hand

Womans Wrongs, 1874. Artist: Joseph Swain
Womans Wrongs, 1874. A brutish working-class husband prepares to beat his wife who still bears the insignia of previous violence

A Fulfilled Wish (Der erfüllte Wunsch), 1911. Creator: Moritz Jung
A Fulfilled Wish (Der erfullte Wunsch), 1911

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