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Bats

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  • A bat and three fully dressed birds flying by moonlight. Watercolour by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.
  • A dream: an owl flies overhead, while large and small figures stand by. Drawing attributed to Thomas Uwins.
  • An evil man, representing medicine and religion (?), gloats over the death of the freedom of the individual in Switzerland to consume absinthe, represented as a green woman stabbed by a cross. Colour lithograph after A.-H. Gantner, 1910.
  • A winged man grabbing a young naked woman by the hand while another sits reading a book surrounded by owls and bats. Etching by J.M. Martínez Espinosa after F. Goya.
  • Witches meeting and performing spell. Etching by J.A.A. Pastelot.
  • Cupid leading a lame boy through a forest, watched by demons and animals. Watercolour by H.M. Brock, 1907.
  • Three old hags surround a basket of new-born babies with bats in the distance. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • Heads of a horse shoe bat and a common bat. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Three old hags surround a basket of new-born babies with bats in the distance. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • 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.
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Catalogue

  • view Top, a barbastelle bat; bottom, a pipistrelle bat. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.
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    Top, a barbastelle bat; bottom, a pipistrelle bat. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.

    Buvée, active 18th century. | Date: [1760] | Reference: 578632i
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    A bat. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 1789.

    Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828. | Date: [between 1790 and 1799?] | Reference: 751461i
  • view Three old hags surround a basket of new-born babies with bats in the distance. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
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    Three old hags surround a basket of new-born babies with bats in the distance. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.

    Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828. | Date: [1796/98] | Reference: 36754i
  • view Heads of a horse shoe bat and a common bat. Drawing, c. 1789.
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    Heads of a horse shoe bat and a common bat. Drawing, c. 1789.

    | Date: 1789? | Reference: 29165i
  • view 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.
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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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