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  • An old man trying on spectacles at a street vendor's optical shop. Woodcut by J. Amman, 1568.
  • Martyrdom of two saints, bound and flogged. Woodcut.
  • A woman seated on a obstetrical chair giving birth aided by a midwife who works beneath her skirts. Woodcut.
  • Acupuncture/pressure points on the body seen in three-quarter profile to left. Woodcut by a Chinese artist.
  • A witch holding a plant in one hand and a fan in the other. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
  • Saint Eufrasia. Woodcut, 1558.
  • Saint Priscilla: she is baptized by Saint Peter. Etching by P.P.A. Robert and colour woodcut by N. Le Sueur after J. Baglione.
  • Witchcraft: witches and devils dancing in a circle. Woodcut, 1720.
  • Saint Roch. Woodcut and letterpress.
  • The Crucifixion of Christ; Christ the Lord, of Ponta Delgada on the island of Madeira. Woodcut.
  • Ambrosia altera.
  • Hydraulics: two human-driven [?] pumps. Woodcut, 1659.
  • Marsilius Ficinus. Woodcut by T. Stimmer.
  • A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Woodcut by A. Andreani after G. Fortuna, ca. 1588.
  • A miser and usurer holding a money-bag is accosted by a poor man on crutches. Woodcut by J. Amman, c. 1568.
  • A man handing over his horse to the blacksmith. Woodcut.
  • Saint John the Evangelist watches an angel giving robes to martyrs. Woodcut.
  • A maker of handbags at work in his workshop: a man and a woman pass the window, and the woman asks the man to buy her a bag held up by a salesman. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A heliotrope (Heliotropium minus): entire flowering plant. Woodcut.
  • The dance of death: Death, seen riding his horse, leaves the city as the hero who equalised those who followed him blindly. Woodcut by Gaber after Alfred Rethel, 1848.
  • Saint Vincent Ferrer. Woodcut.
  • William Harvey. Woodcut by H. Gerrard, 1923.
  • A couple in fashionable dress. Woodcut by Hans Schäufelein, 15--.
  • The Holy Trinity crowning the Blessed Virgin. Woodcut by C. Jegher after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Ambrosia altera.
  • A potter making clay pots on a wheel. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • The dance of death: Adam tills the soil. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.
  • A sick old woman, sitting supported by pillows as a skeleton pounces aiming his spear at her eyes. Woodcut by Tobias Stimmer, 1580.
  • Saint Patrick banishing reptiles from Ireland. Coloured woodcut (?).
  • Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian. Woodcuts and letterpress, 1858.