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  • A hand lifts a ball. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Line engraving.
  • Female and male hands (above and below respectively). Drawing after H. Fuseli, c. 1793.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, details of the use of pincers (top), and sewing needles (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • The hand: three figures, (left to right) bones, muscles, and surface anatomy. Colour lithograph, 1868, after J.A. Vinter.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a weaver pushing down the threads. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Three figures of the upper arm (above); two figures of the hand showing bones and tendons (below). Red-chalk drawing with ink, 17th century.
  • Four pairs of hands joining in the middle with the message in Italian 'Give a hand. AIDS. A common battle'; an Associazone Solidarietà AIDS project by the Italian AIDS Forum. Colour lithograph by Michele Begali, ca. 1995.
  • The index fingers of two hands touch, one painted silver, the other gold with the words 'love without fear' in Finnish, and partly showing in Chinese and Arabic; an advertisement for a free handbook about HIV and AIDS by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
  • Textiles: a spinning wheel (top), making the design (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Three forearms and one hand. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a weaver passing different threads through the weave. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • A man removing a plaster from his hand. Etching attributed to D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a weaver sewing different coloured threads at the back of the work. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Two hands illustrating sign language with Hebrew (?) characters. Engraving by J.W. Michaelis.
  • A man sits and paints a picture of the exiled Adam and Eve; his wife suckles a baby; representing the thirtieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.
  • Two hands bent over each other to the left, one painted silver, the other gold with the words 'love without fear' in Chinese, Russian and Italian; an advertisement for a free handbook about HIV and AIDS by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
  • The hands, feet, nose and ear of a gorilla. Lithograph by G H Ford.
  • Saint Martha (?). Woodcut.
  • The young Christ lectures the doctors of the Temple. Engraving by E. Rouargue.
  • Fishing: net-makers' equipment and tools. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • A gloved hand making surgical stitches. Coloured pencil drawing, 19--.
  • An ornate lucky charm in the form of a hand. Chromolithograph.
  • A giant hand roaming through the dark streets of London, people and rats try to escape its grasp; representing bubonic plague. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • The muscles of the hand, after Albinus, and of the foot, after De Courcelles. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeon's Guild of Amsterdam. Mezzotint after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1632.
  • Sir Gervas Powell Glyn, 6th Bart.: radiograph of his hand. Photograph by Sir G.P. Glyn, 1896.
  • Christ, praying in the light, raises Lazarus from his tomb. Etching after J. Lievens, 1631.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, two close-up views of hands weaving. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Two arms entwined one painted silver, the other gold with the words '[love without fear] in Swedish, Arabic, Chinese and English; one of a series of AIDS prevention advertisements by the Folkhälsoinstitutet [National Public Health Institute]. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.