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A young barefoot shepherdess and a little girl take refuge near a shrine during a storm. Lithograph by Z. Belliard after M.-Ph. Coupin de La Couperie.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Chapel of Votive Tablets. Photograph from a negative of 1913.

Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) growing on a lakeside. Coloured etching by B. Pouncy, c. 1793, after W. Hodges.

Taiwan: a roadside shrine. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.

A pilgrim praying at a roadside shrine of Saint Bridget in Italy. Etching by G. Hayter, 1829.

Shrine of the Annunciation of the Virgin, in the church of the Annunciation, Nazareth, Israel. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe, 1842, after David Roberts, 1839.

A Hindu praying to a shrine accompanied by a young lady. Gouache drawing.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: pilgrims praying in front of the grotto and portrait of Bernadette Soubirous. Wood engraving.

Kamakura, Japan: the Grand Temple of Kamakura, in wooded country. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées: pilgrims gathered at the cave of Massabielle. Lithograph.

Vom Marterl bis zum Gipfelkreuz : Flurdenkmale in Oberbayern / Paul Werner, Richilde Werner.

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A pilgrim praying at a roadside shrine of Saint Bridget in Italy. Etching by G. Hayter, 1829.

Kamakura, Japan: the Grand Temple of Kamakura, in wooded country. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées: pilgrims gathered at the cave of Massabielle. Lithograph.

Vom Marterl bis zum Gipfelkreuz : Flurdenkmale in Oberbayern / Paul Werner, Richilde Werner.

Lourdes, Haute Pyrénées, France: pilgrims praying in front of the grotto and portrait of Bernadette Soubirous. Wood engraving.