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  • Two carpenters, possibly father and son, at work. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A father reprimanding his son, and a mother reprimanding her daughter. Coloured etching, 1801.
  • A son has returned to his family and is now being given his share of his father's fortune. Coloured engraving.
  • The prodigal son returns and is greeted by his father. Etching by V. Vangelisti after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • The followers of Robespierre entering the prison cell in which Loizerolles father and son are kept to take the son away for execution. Stipple engraving by G. Aliprandi after J.H. Fragonard.
  • A father has died and is mourned by his wife and children, as his eldest son returns from the wars, distraught by his arrival too late to see his father alive. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1781, after J.B. Greuze.
  • A father and mother greet their returning son with a crowd of people gathered outside the open door. Engraving by J. Heath after Gravelot.
  • Rudbeckia triloba L. Asteraceae Orange Cone flower. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: North America. It is named for Olof Rudbeck, father (1630–1702) and son (1660–1740). Olof Rudbeck the Elder was professor of medicine at Uppsala University, and established a botanic garden there. He was the discoverer of the human lymphatic system. His son succeeded his father as professor of medicine, and one of his students was Carl Linnaeus (1707–88) who named the genus Rudbeckia after him and his father. It is a plant which is poisonous to cattle, sheep and pigs with no medicinal uses. Austin (1974) discusses R. hirta, also regarded as a toxic plant. It was used externally by the Cherokee to bathe sores and snakebites and made into a tea for treating diarrhoea. The Seminoles used it for headaches and fever and the Miccosukee for sunstroke and headache. The Cherokee and the Iroquois used it to treat intestinal worms Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tobias and Azarius taking leave of Tobit. Woodcut by or after M. van Heemskerk.
  • An old man and a younger man; representing the progress of pharmacy. Process print after U.A. Ricci.
  • M. de Mélincourt proudly returns from the hunt with his son, who presents to his mother and his aunt the game he has shot, though they doubt his claim. Engraving.
  • Fred Barnes and his father playing cards. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • Fred Barnes and his father playing cards. Photographic postcard, 19--.
  • A little boy standing on a stool to brush his teeth at the basin, to emulate his father. Colour lithograph, 1932/1934.
  • Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: an old man and a boy. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: an old man and a boy. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A father with a chainsaw running amok in a teenage boy's bedroom; representing a parent to whom it is difficult to talk about drugs, but who is not typical of all parents. Colour lithograph for the Drugs Infolijn and the Trimbos-instituut, 200-.
  • The prodigal son embraces his father. Etching by F. Severati after J.F. Overbeck, 1851.
  • The return of the prodigal son. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after L. Massari.
  • A young lad pulls off a corpulent man's boots. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, c. 1840.
  • A young lad pulls off a corpulent man's boots. Coloured extendable lithograph by F. Bouchot, c. 1840.
  • A man trying to get inside the mind of his autistic son; advertising the film "Sommer" by Philip Gröning. Lithograph, ca. 198- (?).
  • An old blind man holding a child walks guided by his stick and dog. Coloured watercolour drawing by R.R.S.
  • The prodigal son returns home by boat to a large party. Etching by J. Wachsmuth after C.J. Vernet and J.C. Tardieu.
  • A blind hurdy gurdy player and his son and two dancing dogs. Coloured lithograph by White after E.J. Pigal.
  • 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.
  • Joseph dies attended by Jesus and Mary. Engraving by J.B. Michel, 1780, after A. Cano.
  • 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.
  • Jan Baptista van Helmont and Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont. Etching by C. de Man, 1648.
  • Aeneas carrying Anchises on his shoulders, while also leading his son Ascanius away from the fire of Troy. Coloured woodcut by L. Büsinck after G. Lallemand.