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  • Christ is circumcised in a crowded church. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 1594.
  • Children being blessed by the vicar at the entrance to a church. Etching by J.H. Robinson after H. Corbould.
  • Boer War: a full military hospital ward housed in a church in Ladysmith, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after H. Paget after H. McCormick.
  • White conduit, looking towards Pentonville: in the distance is St Pancras church. Wood engraving by H. White after a drawing by J. Fussell.
  • Court house, Medical college, church, Augusta, Georgia, with figures, horses and cart. Steel engraving by A. Willmore after W.H. Brooke.
  • The desiccated corpse of a boy, about twelve years old, found in a vault under Saint Botolph's Aldgate old Church in 1742. Coloured etching by H. Rogers, ca. 1779.
  • The desiccated corpse of a boy, about twelve years old, found in a vault under Saint Botolph's Aldgate old Church in 1742. Coloured etching by H. Rogers, ca. 178-.
  • Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Steel engraving by H. Setchell after W. Hogarth.
  • Three doves with a dovecote and church in the distance, all surrounded by bay tree branches entwined in an ornate border. Engraving by H. Terasson after F. Barlow.
  • The fountain of the temple of Diana at Pela in Istria used as a holy water stoup in the church at Pela. Pencil drawing by C.F.H. Werner, 1853.
  • British politicians as acrobats at a fair: performances by Lord John Russell balancing on a pole inscribed "Irish corporation billl...", Daniel O'Connell swallowing a sword inscribed "Repeal", and Thomas Spring-Rice balancing on his chin an object with a picture of a church, watched by political onlookers. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1837.
  • The face of a woman against a black background bearing the red lettering: "Dass das Leben zu ende Sein kann, noch ehe es begonnen hat, mag für dich unvorstellebar Sein; für mich aber wird es ... zur realitä'; an advertisement for an Ecumenical service at the Protestant Episocopal Church in Bischofszell on Sunday, 29 August on the theme of: 'AIDS - a punishment from God? by Pastors H. Miller and M. Keller with representatives of AIDS-Hilfe Thurgau. Colour lithograph.
  • "I have met plenty of men who have lost their situations because they drank : find me the man who has lost his because he didn't." / The Rev. Canon A. H. Sewell. M.A. (Bristol) ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • Saint Etheldreda (Aethelthryth, Audrey). Anastatic print by H. Watling.
  • Corpus Christi College and St. Botolph's Church, Oxford. Line engraving by J. & H.S. Storer after W. Wilkins.
  • St Bartholomew's Priory, London: the ground plan, with a key, scale, and depiction of the conventual seals. Engraving by T. Bourne, 1821.
  • Saint Diego of Alcalà. Etching by Simon Guillain the younger after Annibale Carracci.
  • Saint Blaise blessing a baby with a dangerous throat disease (such as diphtheria). Line engraving, 16--.
  • Saint Gregory the Great, wearing ecclesiastical dress, is kneeling in prayer; angels above him. Etching by S. Watts after Annibale Carracci, 1766.
  • Saint Andrew being led to martyrdom. Engraving attributed to J. Audran after G. Reni.
  • Funerary monument to Alice, the daughter of Francis Taylor: her effigy, sleeping. Lithograph by H. Tiffin after F. Taylor, ca. 1845.
  • The Chinese town, West Point, Hong Kong. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • Astronomy: an angel astride the cosmos, looking heavenward. Engraving by N. Dorigny, 1695, after Raphael, 1516.
  • A portrait of Peter Paul Rubens, in a roundel, on a pedestal, being unveiled by Fame at the command of Minerva, as a putto carves an inscription on the pedestal. Engraving by B. Baron, 1724.
  • Saint Pantaleon (Panteleion, Panteleimon). Engraving by Theodosios Rosos, 1818.
  • Astronomy: Venus with Cupid, and an angel above looking downward. Engraving by N. Dorigny, 1695, after Raphael, 1516.
  • Astronomy: Mars with sword and shield, an angel above, looking heavenward. Engraving by N. Dorigny, 1695, after Raphael, 1516.
  • Astronomy: Diana, as Moon goddess, an angel above looking heavenward. Engraving by N. Dorigny, 1695, after Raphael, 1516.
  • Astronomy: Jupiter with an eagle, an angel above, looking heavenward. Engraving by N. Dorigny, 1695, after Raphael, 1516.
  • Astronomy: Apollo as the Sun god with his bow and arrow, an angel above, looking heavenward. Engraving by N. Dorigny, 1695, after Raphael, 1516.