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  • The Cult of Beauty, advertisement for Hazeli
  • People in Nagasaki trampling on Christian cult images. Etching, ca. 1789.
  • Egypt: ceremonies of the cult of Isis. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
  • Egypt: ceremonies of the cult of Isis. Coloured engraving, ca. 1804-1811.
  • Headless statue of Aesculapius, copy of a cult statue of the 4th or 3rd century B.C.
  • Our Lady of Treguron, one of a series ofn Breton statues. Invoked by pregnant women but a purely local cult.
  • Antoiniste cult followers, Liège: a father and two daughters on their way to the Temple of the Antoinistes. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 1920/1940 (?).
  • Temple of the Antoinistes, Liège: the chancel end showing the tenets of the cult marked on the wall in large letters. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 1920/1940 (?).
  • 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 dancing couple from the Pujari caste. Gouache drawing.
  • Two yogis, one meditating, the other performing a fire ritual. Gouache drawing.
  • Two begging Brahmans carrying a religious altar and symbols. Gouache drawing.
  • Upper Egypt, temple at Dendara, 1989
  • Upper Egypt, temple at Dendara, 1989
  • Upper Egypt, temple at Dendara, 1989
  • Statuette of Silvanus, the God of the Woods
  • Statuette of Aesculapius excavated at Homs.
  • Surgical instruments. Engraving by G. Georgi, 1656.
  • Just arrived from London, and, by permission, will be exhibited here for a few days at Mr. James's Sale Rooms, corner of Lord-street : that most wonderful phenomenom of nature, the Hottentot Venus : the only one ever exhibited in Europe.
  • Just arrived from London, and, by permission, will be exhibited here for a few days at Mr. James's Sale Rooms, corner of Lord-street : that most wonderful phenomenom of nature, the Hottentot Venus : the only one ever exhibited in Europe.
  • Dattatreya accompanied by his four dogs among cows. Chromolithograph.
  • Empress and court ladies in traditional formal dress on an outing to Kameido plum tree gardens to the east of Tokyo, to view the plum blossoms and write poems about them. Colour woodcut by Chikashige, 1878.
  • Narcissus and Echo. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1791, after B. Luti.
  • Krishna with Radha and three gopis. Chromolithograph.
  • Temple of the Antoinistes, Liège: the congregation leaving the church. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 1920/1940.
  • A treatise on operative surgery comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations; exhibiting the state of surgical science in its present advanced condition; with eighty plates, containing four hundred and eighty-six separate illustrations. Second edition, revised and enlarged / by Joseph Pancoast.
  • A treatise on operative surgery comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations; exhibiting the state of surgical science in its present advanced condition; with eighty plates, containing four hundred and eighty-six separate illustrations. Second edition, revised and enlarged / by Joseph Pancoast.
  • A treatise on operative surgery comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations; exhibiting the state of surgical science in its present advanced condition; with eighty plates, containing four hundred and eighty-six separate illustrations. Second edition, revised and enlarged / by Joseph Pancoast.
  • A treatise on operative surgery comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations; exhibiting the state of surgical science in its present advanced condition; with eighty plates, containing four hundred and eighty-six separate illustrations. Second edition, revised and enlarged / by Joseph Pancoast.
  • A treatise on operative surgery comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations; exhibiting the state of surgical science in its present advanced condition; with eighty plates, containing four hundred and eighty-six separate illustrations. Second edition, revised and enlarged / by Joseph Pancoast.