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  • Architecture: a lock and key. Wood engraving by [E. H.].
  • Architecture: a lock and key with gothic ornament. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing.
  • Engineering: a lock, showing the key, and a loom, with shuttle. Engraving by Porter after J. Farey, junior.
  • Technology: a Russian padlock and key. Wood engraving.
  • Architecture: wrought iron lock. Wood engraving by C. D. Laing, 1846, after E. H.
  • Architecture: a lock with gothic ornament. Wood engraving after E. H..
  • Technology: details of a lock mechanism. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Locks: the mechanism of a lock. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Architecture: four large keys in decayed condition. Wood engraving.
  • Engineering: a lock, and a carriage. Engraving by E. Kennion after C. Varley.
  • Technology: section and elevation of the Bramah and Marshall locks. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1813.
  • Locks: details of two types of lock. Engraving by H. Mutlow after J. Farey.
  • Technology: a lock (top) and a chair (below). Engraving by J. Taylor after C. Varley.
  • Architecture: various highly wrought designs for door furniture. Engraving.
  • A woman holding the caduceus and a bunch of keys; representing dialectic. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • A dial with numbers above a lock bearing the number '73122' representing an advertisement for the Program on AIDS by the Thai Red Cross Society. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • Two naked children tying up and storing champagne bottles. Lithograph by Piecq, c. 1845, after Gosse.
  • Architecture: a lock with gothic ornament. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing after E.H.
  • A maid puts a key down a man's shirt to stop his nosebleed. Lithograph, c. 1835-1841.
  • A key keeper and wife offering him a betel leaf. Gouache drawing.
  • Jesus appoints Peter as head of the church. Colour etching by A. Scacciati, 1766, after J. Chimenti.
  • Satyrs grouped around a statue, displaying the attributes of greed and venality. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.
  • A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.
  • Jesus appoints Peter as keeper of the keys to heaven; angels stand by. Engraving by G. Pasqualini after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • World War One: three prisoners crouch at the feet of a fourth man who incites them to action. Halftone after a crayon drawing by L. Raemaekers.
  • Jesus appoints Peter as head of the church. Chromotypograph.
  • An enthroned king, wearing three crowns and with a sword in his mouth, having vanquished a green seven headed hydra; an archangel with a key imprisons Lucifer in chains by a roaring fire; representing the culmination of the alchemical process and the sublimation of base matter. Coloured etching after an etching, ca. 17th century.
  • Christ winnowing evil from the human heart; a penitent bathing in the blood and water from Christ's side; an angel locking a dragon in hell. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 1578.
  • Jesus appoints Peter as head of the church. Etching by P.L. Ghezzi.