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  • Charity breastfeeding a baby, a child and an elderly man by her side. Engraving by L. Desplaces after C. Le Brun.
  • A king (?) handing out alms to a crowd of people, over a sheaf of corn. Etching.
  • The fallibility of the senses: above, justice, fame and deceit; below, doctors conducting an autopsy on a cadaver, surrounded by onlookers. Engraving, 1692.
  • An elegant lady with gloves, mask and fur muff; representing Winter. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • The Roman emperor Valens pours money into a coffer; an officer is arrested and led to prison. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • Galatea riding a scallop shell chariot over the seas accompanied by Neptune, nymphs and cherubs, symbolising the element water. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after F. Albani.
  • Free trade represented as a woman: the left half is a skeleton being cursed by unemployed and starving British workers; the right half is a beautiful young woman who is giving gold to importers of foreign goods. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 21 November 1886.
  • The countries of Europe representing physicians and surgeons trying to regenerate a woman personifying the Dutch republic. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.
  • François Mauriceau. Line engraving by J.A. Boener, 1680.
  • A man with a wooden leg carrying arms and legs in a basket; representing the relation between the whole and its parts in Aristotelian logic. Engraving by L. Gaultier, ca. 1613.
  • Five tombs containing skeletons of historical exemplars of wisdom, war, beauty, strength and riches; an allegory of change, decay and death. Engraving after A.P. van de Venne, ca. 1655.
  • Benedictus Silvaticus. Line engraving by J. Georgi, 1656.
  • A naked man is holding a bowl with fruit on spikes in his left hand while dropping a lizard into one of the two amphorae beside him; representing the month September. Engraving.
  • The coat of arms of virginity. Engraving by P. Velyn after L.A. Vintcent after J. Cats.
  • A gardener smelling a flower; representing the sense of smell. Etching by T. Kitchin after D. Teniers.
  • Allegory of civilisation and AIDS in the character of Richard II. Ink drawing by N. Garland, 1988.
  • Landscape with a bridge; representing December. Etching by G. Perelle, c. 1660.
  • A female figure among astronomical apparatus: representing astronomy. Etching by F.D. Née after C-N. Cochin the younger, 1773.
  • An allegory celebrating Dutch painters. Engraving by J.A. Pierron after P. Peyron.
  • Three women and five men gathered in a room which opens up to classical architecture, the group on the left is making music while the others are engaged in conversation; representing the continent of Europe. Stipple engraving by Nargeot after C.A. Chasselat.
  • A man woos a woman in a garden; representing the sanguine temperament. Engraving by R. Sadeler after M. de Vos.
  • A skeleton as Death embraces a pregnant woman. Woodcut by Gerhard Marcks, 1959.
  • Cherubs and demons hold up pictures in front of a youth; a woman embroiders; representing the age of twenty. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16---.
  • The sense of smell: a man lying in bed smells flowers as another lights some incense, above, a priest stands before a burning sacrifice of a lamb. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • A farmer with some sheep; representing November. Etching by G. Perelle, c. 1660.
  • The discovery of herbal medicines, their transport by ship from the East Indies and their presentation to the pagan deities. Engraving after Adolf van der Laan, 1741.
  • World War One: a German soldier crouches in fear between two saintly mediaeval sculptures; behind Notre Dame is burning. Halftone after a pen drawing by L. Raemaekers.
  • A woman personifying France (?) rescuing a baby from the tentacles of an octopus representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, ca. 1922.
  • A woman pouring wine from a jug into a goblet; representing the virtue of temperance. Etching, 16--.
  • People living with the threat of avalanches; representing Winter. Etching.