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  • A group of figures from antiquity are led into a garden by a woman with a telescope and a hand mirror. Etching.
  • Putti study the plants in a botanical garden; representing botany. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A quadrangle designed for St Mary's Hall, Oxford. Engraving by G. Vertue, 1746.
  • Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.
  • A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay. Engraving by N-G. Dupuis, 1759, after J-B-M. Pierre.
  • Three men read while a woman writes numerals; representing arithmetic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • A woman on a throne in a classroom; representing grammar. Etching by C. Schut.
  • An alchemist copying a text, surrounded by apparatus, attended by his dog. Wood engraving.
  • The castle of knowledge, flanked by the spheres of destiny and fortune. Woodcut, 1556.
  • A scholar's study. Etching by C.W. Sherborn, 1890.