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  • A young woman being visited by a member of the clergy while another woman cries beside her. Line engraving, 1813.
  • Crowds of sick people and clergy gathering at the tomb of F. de Paris where people had been cured. Engraving.
  • Charles II touching a patient for the king's evil (scrofula) surrounded by courtiers, clergy and general public. Engraving by R. White.
  • A surgeon bandaging a patient's knee after applying a cautery, a clergy man and a wealthy patron (?) are observing the situation. Engraving.
  • A man on his deathbed surrounded by several members of the clergy, a physician is in the background examining a urine flask. Process print.
  • Seven clergymen watch as a physician bathes the feet of a sick, aristocratic lady; suggesting the uncertainty of the clergy faced with the ousting of the aristocracy in France. Coloured etching by S.J., 1791.
  • A travelling barber shaving a man in a makeshift tent; on the right three members of the clergy are talking; on the left a seated man is smoking a pipe. Coloured lithograph after G. Dura.
  • A parson is being attacked by a mob with hens. Etching by J. Barlow after S. Collings.
  • Caleb Carrington, Vicar of Berkeley. Watercolour and ink by S. Jenner, 1864 (?).
  • Three people praying around the bed of a sick man, one is a priest. Line engraving by I. Taylor.
  • Two men in clerical dress are sitting at a table holding drinks in their hands, as they are reproved by a cleric accompanied by a beadle. Engraving.
  • Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper.
  • A sick person is being blessed by a priest while a beam of light from the sun shines through the clouds. Line engraving.
  • A sick patient surrounded by family and visited by a priest. Stipple engraving by Middlemist after T. Stothard.
  • Samuel Wilberforce. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1871.
  • Samuel Wilberforce. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1871.
  • Nicholas Byfield, a man who had a large bladder-stone. Line engraving, 1790.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • A priest at Lourdes holding up a monstrance to a sick girl who walks towards it, in the background are groups of people on stretchers. Etching by J.L. Forain, 1912.
  • An aged rustic telling a clergyman that he is calling the physician to attend his wife only on the fortieth anniversary of her previous use of a physician. Drawing by B. Thomas, 1921.
  • An epileptic being restrained by another man is brought before a priest to be blessed. Ink drawing.
  • A monk for the care of sick people dressed in his habit. Coloured line engraving by N. de Poilly.
  • Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk: interior. Etching by B. Winkles, 1837, after R. Garland.
  • Lame people, war victims and beggars receiving alms at a hospital. Etching after J. Callot.
  • Franco-Prussian War: ambulancemen collecting the wounded and dead at Champigné. Etching by A. Lançon, 1870.
  • Top: Daniel O'Connell as a cock supported by Jewish finance and the Roman Catholic church; below, O'Connell withdrawing from fighting a duel (?). Coloured lithograph by Robert Seymour, 1835.
  • The confirmation ceremony for a group of boys; one of them confuses confirmation with vaccination. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1831.
  • The confirmation ceremony for a group of boys; one of them confuses confirmation with vaccination. Coloured aquatint by G. Hunt, 1831.
  • Blessings given at the High Church of Our Beloved Lady involving the expulsion of devils and curing of blind and lame people. Etching.