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Locks and keys

Images

  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • Technology: a Russian padlock and key. Wood engraving.
  • Christ winnowing evil from the human heart; a penitent bathing in the blood and water from Christ's side; an angel locking a dragon in hell. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 1578.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Etching by C. Dusart, 1695.
  • Engineering: a lock, and a carriage. Engraving by E. Kennion after C. Varley.
  • Architecture: various highly wrought designs for door furniture. Engraving.
  • Jesus appoints Peter as head of the church. Chromotypograph.
  • A woman surgeon and her assistant cupping a patient. Oil painting after Cornelis Dusart.
  • Locks: details of two types of lock. Engraving by H. Mutlow after J. Farey.
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    Architecture: wrought iron lock. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1846, after E. H.

    | Reference: 44365i
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    A maid puts a key down a man's shirt to stop his nosebleed. Lithograph, c. 1835-1841.

    | Reference: 16472i
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    Jesus appoints Peter as head of the church. Engraving by Clark and Pine, ca. 1719.

    | Date: 1710-1719 | Reference: 22614i
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    Jesus appoints Peter as head of the church; he instructs him to 'feed his lambs'. Engraving by M. Sorello after Raphael.

    Raphael, 1483-1520. | Reference: 22615i
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    The Assumption of the Virgin. Engraving by G. Frezza, 1728, after C. Maratta, 1707.

    Maratti, Carlo, 1625-1713. | Date: An. 1728 | Reference: 21596i
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