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A man taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.

Saint Anne with the young Mary. Coloured stipple engraving.

A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.

A young physician feeling the pulse of a young woman, a painting of two lovers in the background suggests her illness maybe lovesickness. Lithograph by L.E. Soulange-Teissier, 1850, after P.L.A.A. Terral.

Saint Anne with her child, the Virgin Mary. Engraving by Salvardi.

A small girl recovering from an illness and being visited by neighbours. Colour process print, 1907, after E. Magnus.

A father puts his arm around his son who reads a book while a mother holding a cup comforts her daughter; an AIDS prevention advertisement aimed at families for the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. March 1994.

Saint Anne with the young Mary. Gouache painting.

1 print edged with canvas and mounted on card : line engraving

Saint Anne educates the young Virgin Mary; Joachim stands behind them. Engraving.

<p>A young woman with a bonnet and a cloak is seated in the foreground. Left, a dishevelled man takes the pulse of her right wrist with his right hand, and places his left hand on his chest. Both have strong expressions, she casting her eyes upwards in dread and he looking askance, with suspicion: perhaps the implication is that she fears he will detect that she is pregnant. Behind, an older woman, presumably the mother of the younger one, holds a flask, presumably containing urine for examination by the medical practitioner</p>

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood oval 25 x 18.5 cm

<p>The old woman is perhaps teaching magic to her daughter. The original Teniers painting is lost but it has also been preserved in a print by Aliamet (see frame no. 26326), which does not show this scene with the old and younger woman, but rather just the old woman preparing a concoction. On the right a young naked woman is seen surrounded by old witches and demons, preparing to ascend the chimney</p>

Preparation for the witches' sabbath. Etching by D. Vivant-Denon after D. Teniers the younger.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 21 x 15 cm

A father reprimanding his son, and a mother reprimanding her daughter. Coloured etching, 1801.

1 print : line engraving ; sheet 13.1 x 9.1 cm

Saint Anne with her child, the Virgin Mary. Engraving.

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Saint Anne educates the young Virgin Mary; Joachim stands behind them. Engraving.

A man taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.

Preparation for the witches' sabbath. Etching by D. Vivant-Denon after D. Teniers the younger.

A father reprimanding his son, and a mother reprimanding her daughter. Coloured etching, 1801.

Saint Anne with her child, the Virgin Mary. Engraving.

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Saint Anne educates the young Virgin Mary; Joachim stands behind them. Engraving.

A man taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.

Preparation for the witches' sabbath. Etching by D. Vivant-Denon after D. Teniers the younger.

A father reprimanding his son, and a mother reprimanding her daughter. Coloured etching, 1801.

Saint Anne with her child, the Virgin Mary. Engraving.

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