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Screens

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  • A young woman posing naked against a decorative dressing screen.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: the Egyptian Gallery of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, n.d. [c.1939].
  • Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the picture gallery at ground floor level, showing the folding screens. Lithograph, 1830.
  • Boer War: a wounded soldier being visited in hospital by his wife and little daughter. Halftone, c. 1900, after a photograph by E. H. Mills.
  • The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: the Reading Room after reconstruction of the Library in 1962, facing north, towards the Vesalian Screen. Photograph.
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    Le malade imaginaire: Argan, a hypochondriac feigning illness in front of Béline, his wife and Dr. Purgon, his physician, in a scene from Molière's play. Etching by G. Schouten after J.B. Molière.

    Molière, 1622-1673. | Reference: 21936i
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    The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: the Egyptian Gallery of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, n.d. [c.1939].

    | Date: 1939 | Reference: 29097i
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    Sir John Soane's House and Museum: the picture gallery at ground floor level, showing the folding screens. Lithograph, 1830.

    | Date: [1830] | Reference: 38486i
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    A wealthy hypochondriac having two physicians take his pulse at the same time. Line engraving by H. Bourne after A. Solomon.

    Solomon, Abraham, 1823-1862. | Reference: 21990i
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    An episode in Tristram Shandy: Corporal Trim reading a sermon to Mr. Shandy, Uncle Toby, and Doctor Slop. Etching after L. Sterne.

    Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. | Date: [between 1700 and 1799] | Reference: 22014i
    Part of: Twelve prints representing the most interesting sentimental and humorous scenes in Tristram Shandy
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