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A man with toothache sits in his nightgown, with a handkerchief around his face, in a surgery [?], and is discovered by "Botsam" in fright to be turning into a devil. Wood engraving by F. Wentworth after H.K. Browne.
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Reference: 17178i
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Three women in a gin shop divert the landlady's attention while a match boy steals her money. Mezzotint, c. 1765.
Date: 1765Reference: 26888i
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A naked man lies with his eyes closed with one foot touching a lit candle held by a golden cupid; he lies on his side floating above an array of gold gift-wrapped presents among other items with one arm raised towards a glowing gold star with a gold cloud bearing a cupid, a personified gold moon and a falling teddy bear; includes the message in French: 'AIDS is not dying once; we die of indifference every day'; one of a series of posters by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz/Aide Suisse contre le SIDA/Aiuto AIDS Svizerro. Colour lithograph by Etienne Francey and Daniel Ammann.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 675047i
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A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.
Reference: 18581i
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A drunken party with men smoking, sleeping and falling to the floor. Engraving by T. Cook, c. 1798, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1 April 1798Reference: 26454i
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Christ, with a sword in his mouth, between seven candlesticks; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, 1772/3.
Date: 1772Reference: 38209i
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The presentation of Jesus to the high priest at the Temple. Engraving by C. Cort, 1568, after F. Zuccaro.
Zuccaro, Federico, approximately 1540-1609.Date: 1568Reference: 22111i
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Mary dies amid a commotion of apostles and angels. Etching by L. Bridi after de Antioni after M. d'Oggioni.
Marco, d'Oggiono, 1475-approximately 1530.Reference: 21259i
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Three men drinking in the light of a flame held by a boy. Aquatint by A. Bissell, c. 1800, after J. Trautmann.
Trautmann, Johann Georg, 1713-1769.Date: 1800Reference: 26783i
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Christ is circumcised in a crowded church. Engraving by A. Sadeler after J. Speeckaert.
Speckaert, Hans, approximately 1540-approximately 1577.Date: 1594Reference: 22027i- Pictures
A man sits by a barrel-table smoking his pipe, behind others play cards and a woman enters the room. Engraving by P. Chenu after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 24720i
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A surgeon treating a patient's foot, in the background another surgeon is examining a patient in a surgery. Line engraving by F.A. Schröder after A. Brouwer.
Brouwer, Adriaen, 1605 or 1606-1638.Reference: 22624i
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A lecherous drinker sits with a girl at a barrel table in a dingy tavern. Engraving by P. Canot, c. 1756, after D. Teniers, the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 30 September 1756Reference: 26782i
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Christ appears to Saint John the Evangelist with eyes aflame and a sword in his mouth. Etching by P. van der Borcht.
Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608.Reference: 24953i- Pictures
Florence Nightingale. Coloured mezzotint by C.A.Tomkins, 1855, after J. Butterworth.
Butterworth, J., active 1839-1854.Date: 30 June 1855Reference: 9974i
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Adam Walker, a natural philosopher, performing scientific experiments. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1796.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 29 March 1796Reference: 12076i
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A husband and wife ask a quack doctor for advice about health: he suggests substituting himself for the husband in the wife's affections, and she agrees. Mezzotint by J. Simon, 17--, after Etienne Jeaurat.
Jeaurat, Etienne, 1699-1789.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 22263i
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A tooth-drawer in his practice extracting a tooth from a seated patient who is surrounded by friends and family holding candles. Engraving by D.J. Pound after G. van Honthorst.
Honthorst, Gerrit van, 1592-1656.Reference: 16444i
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A wife dutifully sits by the bedside of her sick husband, watching over him. Mezzotint by J.C. Bromley, 1837, after E. Prentis.
Prentis, Edward, 1797-1854.Date: 1 September 1837Reference: 17936i
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An innkeeper's wife and daughter taking care of Don Quixote's wounds and injuries after being beaten. Engraving after W. Hogarth after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.Reference: 22041i
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The circumcision of Christ in the Temple. Etching by Father K. Felner, 1779, after C. Dietrich.
Dietrich, Christian Wilhelm Ernst, 1712-1774.Date: 1779Reference: 22032i
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A man conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic, in the foreground, in the background a female figure representing the world observes a man of the new school of chemistry who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle: a representation of the historical transition between alchemy and chemistry. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.
Corbould, Richard, 1757-1831.Date: 27 July 1805Reference: 25676i
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The London Institution: the interior of the library. Drawing by H. Ansted, 1824.
Ansted, H., active 1824-1828.Date: 1824Reference: 26246i
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Christ is circumcised in a crowded church. Engraving by A. Sadeler after J. Speckaert.
Speckaert, Hans, approximately 1540-approximately 1577.Date: 1594Reference: 22003i
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Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club. Coloured aquatint by John Caspar Ziegler after George Moutard Woodward, published by William Holland, 1798.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: 1798Reference: 24853i