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  • Samson carries the gates of Gaza out of the city. Woodcut.
  • David steals a spear and jug from Saul, who lies deep in a sleep imposed by God. Engraving.
  • Sarawak: five Kenyah warriors in a warfare ritual. Photograph.
  • A man of an Amazonian tribe, holding a spear and wearing a feathered head-dress, in a photographic studio.
  • The resurrected Christ rises over terrified soldiers. Engraving after A. Dürer, 1512.
  • A woman being bled by one man while another holds her arm, two dogs lap up her blood; representing France in the grip of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, while the financiers drain her resources. Engraving.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo demon depicted on a stand and surmounted on a torana decorated with smaller figures of demon kings and Hindu gods. Transfer lithograph.
  • Sthenelos bandaging the wounded finger of Diomedes. Ink drawing after a Chalcidian neck-amphora c. 550 B.C.
  • Narasimha disembowelling Hiranyakasipu in front of his son and attendants. Chromolithograph, 1883.
  • A surgeon is widening the chest wound of a soldier in order to remove an arrow, they are surrounded by a military encampment and a raging battle. Process print after a drawing by C. Maurer, c. 1594.
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Works

  • view The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving.
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    The death of Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen. Line engraving.

    | Reference: 18594i
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    A soldier receiving treatment from the surgeon at a battlefield. Coloured lithograph by G. David after A. de Marbot.

    Marbot, Alfred de. | Date: 1814 | Reference: 20085i
  • view The republican solidarity of Joseph Priestley and Thomas Paine; indicated by the grinning devil that links them. Etching by I. Cruikshank, 1792.
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    The republican solidarity of Joseph Priestley and Thomas Paine; indicated by the grinning devil that links them. Etching by I. Cruikshank, 1792.

    Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811? | Date: 15 November 1792 | Reference: 10781i
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    Page 126: Durga with her arms on her mount being led by Hanuman. Watercolour drawing.

    | Reference: 27383i
  • view Page 132: Bhairava with his attributes (a dog, a club and a bowl). Gouache painting.
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    Page 132: Bhairava with his attributes (a dog, a club and a bowl). Gouache painting.

    | Reference: 27399i
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