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  • The knowledge of good and evil, and the consequences of that knowledge, with Adam and Eve and the serpent. Engraving by J. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
  • The knowledge of good and evil, and the consequences of that knowledge, with Adam and Eve and the serpent. Engraving by J. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos.
  • Four physiognomies expressing evil characters. Drawing, c. 1792.
  • Two demonic physiognomies, expressive of malignity. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • A white angel-like figure with wings being embraced by a black demon-like creature with ears with a quote from Friedrich Dürrenmatt stating that love is a miracle but evil is never very far away; a warning about AIDS by the AIDS-Hilfe Vorarlberg. Colour lithograph by Kurt Dornig.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • Double picture: Shiva protecting his devotee from Yama, the God of Death (left), Khandoba as a Mahratta horseman spearing a demon. Transfer lithograph.
  • Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Woodcut, 1493.
  • MS Thai 3, four leaves
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • A funerary reliquary, Upper Ogowe, Gabon
  • An Aboriginal medicine man or shaman from the Kakadu tribe sucking the illness from a patient. Process print after B. Spencer, 1914.
  • A grateful military leader presenting virtuous soldiers with awards and punishing corrupt soldiers in a ceremony. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Mrs Fitzherbert and George Prince of Wales represented as Adam and Eve standing under the Tree of Knowledge surrounded by the trappings of fashionable pastimes and vices, causing the devil to flee. Etching, 1786.
  • Mrs Fitzherbert and George Prince of Wales represented as Adam and Eve standing under the Tree of Knowledge surrounded by the trappings of fashionable pastimes and vices, causing the devil to flee. Etching, 1786.
  • Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver'
  • The soul being refined like metal in a crucible by an angel, Satan, Venus and Death; representing a test of faith. Etching by C. Murer, ca. 1600-1614.
  • The soul being refined like metal in a crucible by an angel, Satan, Venus and Death; representing a test of faith. Etching by C. Murer, ca. 1600-1614.
  • A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of the base, 'natural' man. Etching, 1771, after J. Bakewell.
  • A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of sin. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870, after J. Bakewell.
  • Vajrayogini (Tibetan rDo-rje rNal-byor-ma) and her retinue. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Vajrayogini (Tibetan rDo-rje rNal-byor-ma) and her retinue. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.