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  • Textiles: four vignettes of stages in preparation of linen from flax. Wood engravings.
  • Amitāyus surrounded by forms of himself. Distemper on linen by a Tibetan painter.
  • Amitāyus surrounded by forms of himself. Distemper on linen by a Tibetan painter.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: a storage space for bed linen, pillows and mattresses. Photograph, 1921.
  • Claybury Asylum, Woodford, Essex: a linen room. Photograph by the London & County Photographic Co., [1893?].
  • Military Hospital V.R. 76, Ris-Orangis, France: store for linen supplied by Red Cross. Photograph, 1916.
  • White as snow : if you wish your linen to be white as snow, Sunlight Soap will make it so.
  • White as snow : if you wish your linen to be white as snow, Sunlight Soap will make it so.
  • Christ heals the haemorrhaging woman; women wash their linen in a pond. Etching by G. Bodenehr after C.J. Vernet and J.C. Tardieu.
  • A male corpse is wrapped in linen and entombed while a funeral cortège proceeds into a church in the background. Etching with engraving by G. Spilberg after C. de Passe.
  • A bed with cream linen and a pillow case bearing the words 'SIDA' (AIDS) representing the transmission of AIDS in the bedroom. Colour silk screen print after J. Sterbak, 1993.
  • Mercifulness : Hudson's Extract of Soap is merciful to the clothes; it only removes the dirt, grease, and stains, leaving the linen behind- spotlessly white, wholesome and pure : Hudson's Soap.
  • The pains of gout could be eased by boiling rosemary leaves and tying them, wrapped in linen, round the afflicted members. Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, E. & M. Radford : 'Zyloric' Allopurinol.
  • White linen embroidered with a flower and the initials 'SC' with a letterpress narrative describing its role in protecting the artist from AIDS. Colour silk screen print after S. Calle, 1993.
  • The pains of gout could be eased by boiling rosemary leaves and tying them, wrapped in linen, round the afflicted members. Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, E. & M. Radford : 'Zyloric' Allopurinol.
  • Crumpled bed linen with the words 'The sex was so hot ... it was fatal'; advertising Local Sexual Health Clinics by the Community AIDS Resource Team, Auckland Sexual and Health Services. Photocopy.
  • The burial of Adam: Adam is wrapped in linen sheets and lowered into the grave while a large crowd of mourners is looking on. Engraving by Jan Sadeler after M. de Vos.
  • A London linen-draper's assistant reveals his true identity: he is not "Horatio Sparkins", an aristocratic man about town, but Mr Smith, an assistant in a down-market shop. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • [Bookmark asking for help for the Fench Red Cross to aleviate children dying of a lack of milk, hygiene, baby linen, medical care, air and light. There is an advert for Citiba rayon stockings on the back].
  • [Bookmark asking for help for the Fench Red Cross to aleviate children dying of a lack of milk, hygiene, baby linen, medical care, air and light. There is an advert for Citiba rayon stockings on the back].
  • A mill in Northern Ireland in which flax is processed to make linen: (right) the flax is broken between rotating rollers, then (left) scutched by blades on a rotating wheel; a woman with a child carries away bundles of flax. Coloured stipple engraving by W. Hincks, 1791.
  • A serpentine line, a line of Y-forms and a line of guilloches. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • Euclid. Line engraving.
  • Hippocrates. Line engraving.
  • Galen. Line engraving.
  • Euclid. Line engraving.
  • Hippocrates. Line engraving.
  • Theophrastus. Line engraving.
  • Galen. Line engraving.
  • Hippocrates. Line engraving.