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Vagina

Images

  • Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 4e. tableau, Des parties de la femme qui servent à la génération et à l'accouchement / École départementale de l'Ain.
  • A man ejaculating, while holding a bird-trap on a bamboo pole to catch flying vaginas. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A naked couple lying on a pink heart shaped bed from which an arrow protrudes; a personified condom jumps excitedly out of a framed picture above on to the bed; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph by Robert Lindvig, 1990.
  • Two diagrams of a childs head starting to emerge from the vagina; two cross-sections of an exposed uterus and two diagrams of a single child and twins in the womb. Engraving by W. Taylor, 1791, after F. Birnie after W. Smellie.
  • A man ejaculating, while holding a bird-trap on a bamboo pole to catch flying vaginas. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A clay figure in the form of a vagina assumed to have been made as a votive offering. Watercolour.
  • Ways in which the HIV virus is transmitted representing one of a series of posters in an advertising campaign about AIDS by the Agence Française Lutte Contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
  • The female reproductive and urinary systems with a tumor. Etching by J. Bell.
  • A vertical penis shaped form heads towards a vagina shaped form between two blue markings within a black border; an artist's representation of AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Paul Brühwiler, 1993.
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Catalogue

    • Film

    Trichomonal and monilial vaginitis.

    | Date: 1952
    • Books

    Schauta-Amreich's radical vaginal operation of cancer of the cervix / Hans Högler.

    Högler, Hans. | Date: [1963], ©1963
  • view Procédé et instruments nouveaux pour détruire le polypes de l'utérus, du vagin et du rectum, quelque volumineux qu'ils soient / par le Dr Prosper Hullin ...
    • Books
    • Online

    Procédé et instruments nouveaux pour détruire le polypes de l'utérus, du vagin et du rectum, quelque volumineux qu'ils soient / par le Dr Prosper Hullin ...

    Hullin, Prosper M.L. | Date: 1845
    • Ephemera

    "I wish I could see my little fanny !" / Easton Millar Ltd.

    | Date: [between1950 and 1959?]
  • view Specification of Alexis Victor Mathieu : apparatus for irrigating the intestines, vagina, etc.
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    • Online

    Specification of Alexis Victor Mathieu : apparatus for irrigating the intestines, vagina, etc.

    Mathieu, Alexis Victor. | Date: 1867
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