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  • Four heads of men who each exhibit one of the four temperaments: (clockwise from top left) lymphatic, sanguine, bilious, and nervous. Engraving by W. Johnson and A.K. Johnson, early 19th century.
  • Four heads of men who each exhibit one of the four temperaments: (clockwise from top left) lymphatic, sanguine, bilious, and nervous. Engraving by W. Johnson and A.K. Johnson, early 19th century.
  • Cybele wearing a turreted crown and holding a sceptre; in the background men work on the land; representing Earth, one of the four elements. Engraving by J. Sadeler, 1587, after D. Barendsz.
  • Four distinctive and elaborately adorned women presenting a queen with many riches; representing Europe, Asia, Africa and America bearing the natural bounty of the world to an allegorical figure. Line engraving.
  • The gnarled hands of 'sin' reaching out towards a woman in a figure-hugging dress representing 'lust' with a couple and a figure of death beside a grave; one of 4 drawings by students of C. C. Sweeting Senior High School, Nassau, Bahamas for World AIDS Day, November 1993. Photocopy reproduced from a drawing, 1993.
  • A line-drawn male nude figure with one arm leaning against a surface and his head turned representing an advertisement for two discussion groups organised by Kursiv on the occasion of the International AIDS conference in Berlin. Photocopy, ca. 1993.
  • Yoruba Ibedji (effigies) representing dead twins, Nigeria, West Africa. Some Yoruba tribes revere twins, who are thought to bring luck to household and tribe. The death of one is a great calamity. A wooden figure, called Ibedji, is made to house the spirit of the dead child and be a companion for the surviving twin. The Ibedji figure becomes a cult-object in the family and the mother tends it, offers it food and decks it with beads, cowrie shells, red camwood and other adornments.
  • A line-drawn male nude standing figure with one arm raised to his shoulder, the other down by his side representing an advertisement for a lecture on the possibilities and limitations of naturopathic treatment of HIV and AIDS with Dr. Misha Ruth Cohen, San Francisco, Dr. of Oriental Medicine, Quan Yin Healing Center and Dr. Juliane Sacher, Frankfurt, naturopathic physician with a focus on treating HIV and AIDS; an event organised by Kursiv, an AIDS project for Schwulenberatung on Tuesday, 4 May [1993?]. Photocopy.
  • Two black line-drawn figures, one wearing a blue ribbon representing an advertisement for the Japanese Stop AIDS Fund, part of the Foundation for AIDS Prevention. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • Two black line-drawn figures, one wearing a blue ribbon representing an advertisement for the Japanese Stop AIDS Fund, part of the Foundation for AIDS Prevention. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • Three figures wearing AIDS red ribbons, one holding a flag, stand hand in hand against the sun representing the fight against AIDS; issued by the AIDS Secretariat of the Bahamas. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • Four black silhouette figures behind the words 'AktionsMuseum im alten Schlachthor Wels' representing an advertisement for an event in aid of those with HIV and AIDS at the alten Schlachthor in Wels, Austria between 2 and 8 December 1994. Colour lithograph.
  • A series of figures, some alone, some in couples often with one arm extended to the other, within multi-coloured boxes representing the support services offered by Fase, the Fundación Anti-SIDA España, in Madrid. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Bald-headed figures walking in different directions, one wearing a crown (?) against the face of a clock representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day, December 1, 1993 by the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development. Colour lithograph by Bami, 1993.
  • Three figures: one without a brain and eyes, one removing an eyeball, and the third covering his face; representing turning a blind eye to AIDS; with an illustrated calendar of events to mark World AIDS Day 1996. Colour lithograph after Zaidi Bin Mohd Salleh and others for Action for AIDS Singapore, 1996.
  • Three figures: one without a brain and eyes, one removing an eyeball, and the third covering his face; representing turning a blind eye to AIDS; with an illustrated calendar of events to mark World AIDS Day 1996. Colour lithograph after Zaidi Bin Mohd Salleh and others for Action for AIDS Singapore, 1996.
  • Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind ... Beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures / Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory ... By E. Sibly.
  • Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind ... Beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures / Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory ... By E. Sibly.
  • Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind ... Beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures / Illustrated with notes and observations, critical and explanatory ... By E. Sibly.
  • Bones of the skull: four figures. Ink and watercolour, after an unidentified work on anatomy, ca. 1830(?).
  • Bones of the skull: four figures. Ink and watercolour, after an unidentified work on anatomy, ca. 1830(?).
  • Four figures on ladders painting the words 'Stop AIDS' representing an advertisement for AIDS and the family, an event to mark World AIDS Day on 1 December 1994? in Japan. Colour lithograph, ca. 1994.
  • Nerve operation on an animal (a horse?): four figures, including illustrations of instruments used in the operation. Etching, 1840/1870?.
  • Ancestral effigies, Kafiristan, India. Models of the life-sized figures which are placed outside box graves on hillsides one year after death. Offerings of food, bows and arrows are made to them, and public disasters are attributed to the mishandling of them. The equestrian figures represent males and the seated figures represent females.
  • Anatomical chart, showing the air channels and organs of the body; four figures. Wood engraving (?) with letterpress on rice paper, Ming 18--?.
  • Four figures in costume illustrating a pre-Lister operation on the back of a truck during King's College Centenary week. Photograph, 1929.
  • Military figures behind two children as figures on a table football game, representing the International Committee of the Red Cross in Egypt. Colour lithograph by Creco Adv., ca. 2000.
  • A precarious figure on a tightrope, representing statistics of mental illness in the Netherlands for 1980-1996. Colour lithograph for the Trimbos-instituut, 1999.
  • Above, red-figured Greek wine bowl (column krater); below, detail of the decoration showing a procession of four men (priests?), one of them playing the flute. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • A medical practitioner taking a girl's pulse and holding a flask of her urine, with four other figures on the left and a maid opening a door on the right. Oil painting after Richard Brakenburg.