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  • Interior with an alchemist making a gesture of surprise, and a female assistant. Oil painting by Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • Interior with an alchemist making a gesture of surprise, and a female assistant. Oil painting by Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • A woman standing in a brown vortex, making a helpless gesture, with purple trees and cloud. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A woman standing in a brown vortex, making a helpless gesture, with purple trees and cloud. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • Pier Leone Ghezzi as the "knight of caricature", carrying a stick and making a gesture with both hands. Etching by M. Tuscher, 1743.
  • A man leaves the house followed by his servant, a woman weeps and a girl in the background makes a gesture. Mezzotint by Wilson after C. Troost.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a large-chested nurse in a "hush" gesture, surrounded by red crosses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A white woman is being forced to work a treadmill as a black woman makes a derisory gesture and a white man with a whip watches over. Coloured aquatint.
  • An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a skull in his lowered right hand. His left arm is raised with his hand held in a gesture of eloquence. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a skull in his lowered right hand. His left arm is raised with his hand held in a gesture of eloquence. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • The prisoner, who is kept in a small slatted wooden box is has his judgement read to him while he stretches his hands through the slats in a pleading gesture. Lithograph after J.P. Moynet.
  • A muscular young man wearing black latex trousers and angel s wings, standing on a mudheap with his arm raised and his fist clenched in a combative gesture; representing gay men in the fight against AIDS. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is shown seated on a chair with the asp wriggling up her left arm while her maid shields her face in a gesture of horror and grief. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 175-, after C. Netscher.
  • The deity En no Ozunu (?) in a leaf cloak, with his hands in mudra (a sacred gesture), seated on a rock, with a wine-jar on a low table before him and the sun and moon above. Colour woodcut, ca. 1900.
  • A family sitting round the dinner table, the mother serving food, the father making an authoritative gesture towards his praying son, the two daughters sit next to the mother while the youngest child is fed next to the fire place; representing Concord. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos.
  • p. 151, 24 hand gestures, from Chirologia...
  • Hands in various gestures, including prayer and benediction. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • Adam gestures towards a radiant Eve, flesh of his flesh. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • An omniscient virtuoso gestures boastfully at all the knowledge that lies available to him. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.
  • A woman showing two examples of gestures described by J.J. Engel in his Ideen zu einer Mimik (1785). Etching by J.L. Copia, 1795.
  • A manacled man standing before a jury in a courtroom making gestures of protest while being confined in a spiked frame. Etching by J. van der Gucht.
  • A sumptuously dressed lady gestures towards a mid-air battle between winged fools; small injured figures fall from a bird-house like edifice. Woodcut by Tobias Stimmer, 1580.
  • W.E. Gladstone in the character of Mr Pecksniff gestures away a persistent newspaper seller (C.S. Parnell?). Colour lithograph by Tom Merry after himself, 17 March 1888.
  • A woman and a man make gestures advertising safe sex to prevent AIDS. Colour lithograph for the Ministério da Saúde, Brazil, Programa Nacional de controle das DST/AIDS, ca. 1995.
  • An elderly man gestures towards a man on a bike carrying his family: child spacing and family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 1996.
  • An elderly man gestures towards a man on a bike carrying his family: child spacing and family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 1996.
  • An elderly man gestures towards a man on a bike carrying his family: child spacing and family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 1996.
  • A smiling elderly man gestures towards a happy family selling their clothing wares: child spacing and family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal Ministry of Health, ca. 1996.
  • A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.
  • A man sleeps by a hot stove; a devil blows evil thoughts into his ear; Venus gestures towards the stove, and Cupid learns to walk on stilts in the foreground. Engraving by A. Dürer, ca. 1497-1498.