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  • A woman spoon-feeding a man while he is on the toilet, perhaps as one would a child. Etching by D. Deuchar (?).
  • A cook holding a saucepan and wooden spoon, while in the background another cook roasts meat on a spit. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A physician examining urine. Mezzotint by C. Spooner after A. van Ostade.
  • Oliver Twist, holding a bowl and a spoon, asks for more food, while other children and a woman look surprised. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Stipple engraving.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A woman breastfeeding, a child receiving food by spoon and an array of health foods: child nutrition in Morocco. Colour lithograph by Moroccan Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A king (?) conducting a havan (prayer ceremony) by offering a human head placed on a large spoon to the fire god. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Coloured engraving by F. Huybrechts.
  • A shoemaker who has exchanged looks with a young woman customer lies on the floor holding his head as a woman (his wife?) attacks him with a spoon. Coloured lithograph.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Engraving by B. Farjat after A. Scilla.
  • For pastries, trifles, fruit dishes, cereals, savouries, ices... Soreen milk-whipping compound : recipes : always use a clean dry spoon to take Soreen from carton / John B. Sorenson & Co. Ltd.
  • For pastries, trifles, fruit dishes, cereals, savouries, ices... Soreen milk-whipping compound : recipes : always use a clean dry spoon to take Soreen from carton / John B. Sorenson & Co. Ltd.
  • For pastries, trifles, fruit dishes, cereals, savouries, ices... Soreen milk-whipping compound : recipes : always use a clean dry spoon to take Soreen from carton / John B. Sorenson & Co. Ltd.
  • For pastries, trifles, fruit dishes, cereals, savouries, ices... Soreen milk-whipping compound : recipes : always use a clean dry spoon to take Soreen from carton / John B. Sorenson & Co. Ltd.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Line engraving by J. Rolls after Benvenuto Tisi, il Garofalo.
  • A small man representing the press is holding a spoon with a gooseberry on it and feeding it to John Bull; representing worthless news stories in the British press during the summer. Process print after Ricardo Brook.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins, 1816, after W.W. Hodgson after B. Tisi, il Garofalo.
  • A shoemaker measures up the feet of a young woman who is sitting on a chair holding a shoe in her hand; they exchange looks as they are watched by a displeased woman (his wife?) who is holding a spoon. Coloured lithograph.
  • A child holding a spoon leaning on the shoulders of his father with the message in German: "I have AIDS. With cancer I would have a chance"; an advertisement by the AIDS-Forum Berlin e.V [part of the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.]. Colour lithograph.
  • An infant swallowing a spoonful of Sanostol food supplement. Colour lithograph by E.B., 195-.
  • Display will repay : keep on creating a big stir with Glucodin : energy by the spoonful!.
  • Horse Cough Powders : a table-spoonful to be given in a bran mash / Fredk. L. Gooch.
  • Condition powders : for pigs : directions: one table-spoonful to be given in the food daily. Small pigs in proportion.
  • Scour or diarrhoea mixture for calves : two table-spoonfuls to be given night and morning : also the best remedy for diarrhoea in pigs... / Alfred Parker.
  • An ill man being visited by a suspicious looking man. Coloured lithograph.
  • A black man buying some of J. Morison's pills, hoping they will make him white. Coloured lithograph.
  • A boy requesting an anatomist to mend his broken jug. Coloured lithograph.
  • An obese man exhibiting a placard of himself looking extremely thin, demonstrating the effectiveness of J. Morison's pills. Coloured lithograph.
  • An obese man exhibiting a placard of himself looking extremely thin, demonstrating the effectiveness of J. Morison's pills. Coloured lithograph.