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  • Two Monks practising alchemy
  • Monks receiving alms from a king. Engraving by T. King.
  • Buddhist monks
  • Monks carrying a corpse in a religious funeral procession, passers-by pay respect. Coloured aquatint.
  • Monks singing the Liturgy of the Hours; one monk doing penance. Etching by J.J. de Boissieu, 1795.
  • The Order of Monks of the 'Charité-Dieu and Notre-Dame settling their accounts. Coloured chromolithograph.
  • Devils scourging monks in a village. Engraving, 17--.
  • Monks lamenting the death of a man layed out in a coffin before them in a church. Coloured aquatint.
  • Monks on mount La Verna; bell hung on a tree. Etching by R. Sciaminossi after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
  • Lama. Two monks of the Lama tribe selling beads.
  • Two Shwetambar Jain monks. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Two monks in a laboratory, one at the furnace.
  • Buddhist monks playing a board game, Canton, Kwangtung province, China.
  • Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire. The monks infirmary from the South-West.
  • A pope, a cardinal, a bishop and three monks. Engraving.
  • Siam [Thailand]: monks and their assistants. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Siam [Thailand]: monks and their assistants. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Buddhist monks sit with tea and sweets laid out in front of them.
  • Buddhist monks sit with tea and sweets laid out in front of them.
  • Buddhist monks sit with tea and sweets laid out in front of them.
  • A monastic saint with other monks and a lion in a cloister. Engraving.
  • A dying man is given the last rites by two Franciscan monks. Etching.
  • Two monks in the cloisters of Santa Trinità in Rome. Lithograph by T. Allom.
  • The Hôtel Dieu, Paris: interior showing patients being nursed by monks and nuns. Woodcut.
  • Men (monks?) making and sampling wines, spirits, or other beverages or medicines. Oil painting.
  • Men (monks?) making and sampling wines, spirits, or other beverages or medicines. Oil painting.
  • Two monks in a laboratory trying to find a remedy for one monk's toothache. Watercolour by J. Gregory, 1896.
  • Buddhist monks receiving lunch at Sutthai Sawan Throne Hall, Bangkok. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Buddhist monks receiving lunch at Sutthai Sawan Throne Hall, Bangkok. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Two fakirs, Hindu or Muslim mendicant monks, holding bells. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.