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  • A man with a scimitar, and a bleeding heart; representing the blood donation service run in Cuba by the Comité de Defensa de la Revolución. Colour silk screen print by S. Goire Castilla, 1987.
  • The Christ Child sleeps as a bridegroom in the believer's heart, making it safe as a bride from wind and storm raging outside. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • People completing a jigsaw representing aid to AIDS victims in Hong Kong; an advertisement for the AIDS Hotline by the Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Three means to gain God's mercy: fasting, prayer and alms, which cause the heart of man to fly towards God. Engraving attributed to T. Galle, 1601.
  • Saint Gertrude, indicating the Christ Child in her heart. Colour lithograph, 19--.
  • A postcard illustrating a variety of good luck charms. Chromolithograph.
  • To my valentine.
  • The Christ Child shooting arrows into the believer's heart to conquer the fires of lust. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • A horizontal condom decorated with coloured shapes including red hearts to symbolise love; with the message "without [condoms] the desire goes away". Colour lithograph after Niki de Saint Phalle.
  • Hanuman revealing Rama and Sita in his heart. Watercolour drawing.
  • Series of graphic hearts with a block of text about HIV and AIDS; an advertisement for the National Aids Helpline by the Liverpool Health Promotion Service. Colour lithograph, 1997.
  • The dissection of the body of a miser in the presence of St Anthony of Padua: the miser's heart is found not in his body, but in a casket with his money. Engraving by G. Canuti after Girolamo da Treviso.
  • The heart and its muscle fibres, after Senac. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • John Heaviside. Coloured mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1803, after J. Zoffany.
  • The Christ Child painting pictures (the Last Judgment, the Assumption of the Virgin and a scene from hell) on the inner wall of the believer's heart. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • The Christ Child cleans the believer's heart with a hand-held mop, assisted and venerated by angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • A blacksmith's forge, in which Divine Love prepares to hammer two hearts into one, with the aid of the Soul, who operates the bellows. Coloured etching, 16--.
  • The Christ Child enthroned as a king in the palace of the believer's heart, venerated by angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • The base of the brain with part of the medulla oblongata, the blood vessels injected with wax, and the cerebellum (Table XII, figs 1-2), after Cowper in Ridley (1695); the foetal heart, the larynx and the viscera (Table XIII), after an etching by G. Vandergucht in Cheselden (1740) Etching by I. Basire, 1743.
  • The Virgin suckling the Christ Child sitting in the believer's heart, accompanied by two angels singing and playing a string instrument. Engraving by A. Wierix.
  • Adult cow heart.
  • A believer who is holding the Sacred Heart is kneeling before the Archangel Raphael, who presents the Sacred Heart; above Raphael appears the Jesus monogram; behind him the scene of Raphael, Tobias and the fish. Engraving by Antonie Wierix.
  • The Virgin Mary and Christ child with Saint Antony of Padua, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint John the Baptist as a child. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Bugiardini.
  • A condom piercing 2 red hearts with the message 'Make your love safe'; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by INSA International Services Assocation in India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concoction. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.
  • An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1907, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
  • Silver hearts, half-hearts and droplets interpersed with German and English sex-related words; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by John Lindell and Frank Wagner for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • Valentine's greeting.
  • Series of hearts with block of text about HIV and AIDS; an advertisement for the National Aids Helpline by the Liverpool Health Promotion Unit. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • A pink heart dreaming of love, faithfulness, and health in the face of epidemic illness from AIDS among gay men. Colour lithograph after M. Dubnický, 1991.