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Fortune

Images

  • Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.
  • The wheel of fortune (left); a medieval lead coffin (right). Line engraving by J. Swaine after T. Hollis.
  • Ascending and descending: (above) people in a balloon; (below) people seated in a rotunda around a pool and in danger of falling into the water. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.
  • A surgeon removing a plaster from a man's back, with five people looking on. Oil painting attributed to Adriaen Rombouts, 16--.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    Five people on a terrace above steps, with a dog; the personification of fortune below; representing proverbs (?). Etching and mezzotint by F. Bartolozzi after Annibale Carracci.

    Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609. | Date: [1765] | Reference: 2497884i
    • Pictures

    The wheel of Fortune, showing the rise and fall of European powers. Etching and letterpress, ca. 1689.

    | Date: [1689?] | Reference: 2136945i
    • Books

    Risk and luck in medical ethics / Donna Dickenson.

    Dickenson, Donna. | Date: [2003], ©2003
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    Ascending and descending: (above) people in a balloon; (below) people seated in a rotunda around a pool and in danger of falling into the water. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1842.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: [1842] | Reference: 32501i
    • Books

    Darwin's luck : chance and fortune in the life and work of Charles Darwin / Patrick H. Armstrong.

    Armstrong, Patrick, 1941- | Date: 2009
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