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  • James Gillray, 'Visiting the Sick'
  • A wealthy woman visiting the sick. Wood engraving after C. Baugniet.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • Visiting the sick: a grieving woman bends over a praying patient. Tinted aquatint by F.C. Lewis, 1831, after J. Flaxman.
  • An undertaker visiting a sick man in the hope of gaining a new client. Coloured etching after R. Newton.
  • An undertaker visiting a sick man in the hope of gaining a new client. Coloured etching after R. Newton.
  • Queen Alexandra visiting the sick in the Patrick ward, Dublin Hospital for the Dying, Ireland. Pen and ink drawing by A. Kemp Tebby, 1903, after H. Mills.
  • A doctor visiting a sick child who is surrounded by medicine bottles, his mother waits in the background. Process print after H.M. Bateman, 1911.
  • Observing hospital visiting hours and keeping distance from the sick: preventing the spread of coughs, colds, and influenze in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A couple come to visit the sick people in a hospice, the man attempts to feed one with some nourishment. Etching.
  • A young woman is brought to visit a sick young man in the hope that her love will cure him; relatives and attendants are present. Coloured lithograph by Lafosse after P.-E. Destouches, ca. 1850/1879.
  • A young woman is brought to visit a sick young man in the hope that her love will cure him; relatives and attendants are present. Coloured lithograph by Lafosse after P.-E. Destouches, ca. 1850/1879.
  • At the Royal British School Rooms, Harp Alley, Farringdon Street, on Tuesday, 27th of Dec. 1831 at seven o'clock, a scientific lecture on the natural history of animals : ... on Thursday, 29th of Dec. 1831, at seven o'clock, a lecture on astronomy ... / will be delivered by by Mr. Henry Althans.
  • At the Royal British School Rooms, Harp Alley, Farringdon Street, on Tuesday, 27th of Dec. 1831 at seven o'clock, a scientific lecture on the natural history of animals : ... on Thursday, 29th of Dec. 1831, at seven o'clock, a lecture on astronomy ... / will be delivered by by Mr. Henry Althans.
  • A monk visiting the victims of the great plague of Milan in 1630; an episode in Manzoni's 'I promessi sposi'. Lithograph by G. Gallina after A. Manzoni.
  • A man visits a woman in hospital. Colour process print after a lithograph by T.A. Steinlen.
  • A niece visits her smallpocked uncle and gives him presents. Coloured engraving by Gautier.
  • A mother sick in bed with her children before her. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1920.
  • Mothers and nurses play with sick children on New Years Day. Wood engraving by H. Harral after M.E. Edwards.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Engraving by F. Pigeot after A.J. Gros, 1804.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Engraving by F. Pigeot after A.J. Gros, 1804.
  • In the first picture, a doctor promises a patient a drive out in a car in a few days; the second picture shows a hearse solemnly departing. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte touching the bubo of a plague victim at Jaffa in 1799. Coloured wood engraving by Thiébault.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa. Etching by W. Angus, 1805, after A.J. Gros, 1804.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte visiting plague-stricken soldiers at Jaffa in 1799. Wood engraving by J. Quartley after A.J. Gros, 1804.
  • A French lady visiting cholera sufferers in hospital. Lithograph by Adèle Prieur, 1832.
  • The sense of smell: a man lying in bed smells flowers as another lights some incense, above, a priest stands before a burning sacrifice of a lamb. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • The sense of smell: a man lying in bed smells flowers as another lights some incense, above, a priest stands before a burning sacrifice of a lamb. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo administering communion to victims of the plague in Milan of 1576. Line engraving by F. de Poilly after P. Mignard.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo administering communion to plague victims. Etching by C. Carlone.