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  • Small winged boys are flying around a large petticoat with an inscription under a bishop's mitre, rod and cross and a temporal crown with sword and sceptre: representing the Three Grand Temptations: Spiritual Pride, Temporal Power and Earthly Love. Coloured engraving.
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  • An allegory of pride: a richly dressed couple with an elegant attitude ignore the poor by their side and walk straight over the edge of a cliff; behind them stands an enormous devil who watches them; demons appear in the background. Wood engraving by L. Rhead.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • A personification of faith with a cross, standing on a column, looking upwards and raising her right arm. Stipple engraving by G.S and J.G Facius, 1781, after Josiah Boydell after Sir Joshua Reynolds.
  • Francesco Torti. Line engraving by F.M. Francia, 1732.
  • A giant holding up a boulder with a landscape on which eleven human figures are dancing and three are sitting with vessels out of which streams of water flow, while around the giant's legs are attacking male figures armed with spears. Etching by M. Klinger, 1912.
  • The soul being refined like metal in a crucible by an angel, Satan, Venus and Death; representing a test of faith. Etching by C. Murer, ca. 1600-1614.
  • Putti plan war manoeuvres on maps with the help of geometrical diagrams; representing geometry and military science. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A woman holds the sun in her hand; representing the faculty of understanding. Engraving, 16--.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • An allegorical monument to Sir Isaac Newton and his theories on prisms. Line engraving by L. Desplaces after D. M. Fratta after G.B. Pittoni, D. Valeriani and G. Valeriani.
  • Christ holds up a glass heart filled with animals (sins) and cures a sick woman with the fluid from the wound in his side. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 1578.
  • Workers planting a tree representing the health of the people. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • Personifications of prudence and justice. Etching by S. Mulinari after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • The triumph of the arts through the patronage of Francesco Maria Febei. Etching by P. Aquila, 167-.
  • A seated woman personifying history and a man representing time gesturing towards the socle of a pair of columns decorated with portrait ovals; above, Fame holds her trumpet. Engraving by C. Duflos le père, 1725, after J. Desmarets.
  • A donkey carrying wood through a snowy landscape; representing January. Etching by G. Perelle, c. 1660.
  • A woman personifying astronomy. Engraving by J. Caldwall after W. Collins after R. Willett.
  • Medieval Christian mosaic from Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral in Aoste, Italy; representing the months of the year. Etching by C. Martel after E. Aubert.
  • Four cherubs shout out to God requests to punish the four worst sins of mankind: murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, and failure to pay due wages. Engraving attributed to T. Galle, 1601.
  • A Gallic druid is using a mallet to remove a ring which hemmed in a globe inscribed "Gaul"; he is assisted by two Roman soldiers and surrounded by female allegorical figures, a sickle and fasces, while the Olympian gods look on from above; representing the opening of Gaul to the Roman Empire. Etching.
  • A man scatters seeds; representing the Biblical parable of the sower; here referring to the "ministry of the word", preaching. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • A voyeur watches women taking a bath while above a monk is martyred; representing the sense of sight. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • A woman enthroned under an oak tree, holding a book, a sword and the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire; next to her is a crown; the whole framed by medallions with portraits of artists; representing the rule of the Holy Roman Empire. Lithograph.
  • The god Jupiter flanked by two scholars with winged heads and glasses. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • Scientific instruments and attributes of philosophy: gyroscopes, telescope, pestle and mortar, cosmological manuals, natural history specimens etc.. Lithograph by J-B-J. Jorand, 1835.
  • A deathbed: a man breathes his last, the devil flies down and grabs his soul (in the form of a baby) from his mouth. Engraving, 16--.
  • Johann Georg Zimmermann. Stipple engraving by K.(?) Mackenzie, 1804.