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Widows

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  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Etching by A. Tardieu after Guilbaut.
  • Erhebungsbogen der Witwen- und Waisen-Pension aus der medicinischen Witwen- und Waisen-Societäts-Casse für ...
  • Two young children comfort their mother as she mourns at the tomb of her dead husband. Engraving by F. Bacon after Miss L. Sharpe.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by W.H. Mote, 1846, after J. Franklin after J.F. Overbeck.
  • A skeleton as a woman wearing a brown and red dress and a black headdress. Oil painting, ca. 1680.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Dambrun, 1798, after J.M. Moreau.
  • Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Wood engraving by F. Obermann.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: the widow Wadman wooing Tristram's uncle Toby. Etching after L. Sterne.
  • Christ raises the son of the widow of Nain from the dead. Engraving by J. Matham after F. Zuccaro.
  • A widow with her maid Betty consults a fortune-teller in the hope that he will predict whether she will marry again, and how many times. Etching by I. Taylor, 1785, after R. Corbould.
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    • Online

    Christ raises the widow's son from the dead. Engraving by J. Barlow.

    | Reference: 23716i
    • Ephemera
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    Erhebungsbogen der Witwen- und Waisen-Pension aus der medicinischen Witwen- und Waisen-Societäts-Casse für ...

    Universität Wien. Medizinische Fakultät | Date: [between 1850 and 1880?]
    • Books

    The year of magical thinking / Joan Didion.

    Didion, Joan. | Date: [2005], ©2005
    • Pictures

    Comforting widows and orphans: a man reads the Bible to a despairing woman with three young children. Aquatint with etching by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.

    Flaxman, John, 1755-1826. | Date: Jan.y 1st 1831 | Reference: 571241i
    • Pictures

    Christ raises the son of the widow of Nain from the dead. Engraving after F. Zuccaro.

    Zuccaro, Federico, approximately 1540-1609. | Reference: 23711i
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