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Opinions on the Divorce Bill!! (BM 1948,0214.610), Design in two strips showing twelve characters commenting on the Divorce Bill; an old scholar: 'There were many salutary laws on this subject amongst the Medes and Persians.', a black woman: 'What a hardship on the fair sex!', a thin, bent over man with a stick: 'Ay - and on the gay seducers too!', a weeping woman: 'The only comfort I had left!', a naive young girl: 'I must be married to know what they mean by it.', a weighty fellow: 'It cant be help'd - I have had my day!', an ugly but fashionable woman: 'Not to marry - the seducer of one's heart! was ever any thing so barbarous.', an officer: 'By St Patrick - this is the greatest cut, the cloth ever experienced.', a handsome woman: 'The beaus will absolutely run away from us.', a solid woman with a large muff: 'It is enough to make vone vicked, vether vone vill or not!', a thin man with pursed expression: 'The sums that I expected to clear by my wifes infidelity!', an alarmed cleric: 'Avoid temptation - the best of us may sometimes err!'.  2 June 1800
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Opinions on the Divorce Bill!! (BM 1948,0214.610), Uploads by copyfraud, Satirical prints in the British Museum, paper, Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson : Published by: Ackermann, Opinions on the Divorce Bill!!
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離婚法案の意見!!(BM1948,0214.610) 離婚法案にコメントする12人の人物を描いた2本のストリップのデザイン。老学者:「このテーマは、メディとペルシャの間で多くの法律があった」黒人女性:「公正なセックスに何の苦難があったか」、細くて棒で男性に曲げられた、棒で曲げられた、細い「エイーーーーゲイの誘惑者も!」、泣く女性:「私が残した唯一の安心!」、素朴な若い女性:「結婚して、それが何を意味するのかを知りなさい」、重荷の仲間:「
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離婚法案の意見!!。
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derisive weightily weighty ex-husband ex-spouse divorce dissolution of marriage embezzle divorced embezzled embezzlement embezzler seduce seducer comfort woman strip cropping naive naively adultery