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  • A horse has ridden through a doorway in an effort to stop, the rider has had to duck his head. Etching by H. Bunbury.
  • A family seated in a kitchen preparing to cook pancakes, while a man holding a glass looks in at the doorway. Collotype after C. Visscher.
  • Two men wearing masks club Hudibras, as Ralphos, removing his mask, and a widow (dressed in black), watch from a doorway. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • A couple walking down the street watched by a woman standing in a doorway with arms akimbo. Wood engraving by J. Swain after F. Walker.
  • The Crystal Palace, London: entrance to the English Medieval Court showing part of the doorway from Tintern Abbey and statues from Wells Cathedral. Photograph, 1851/1862.
  • Moll Hackabout is greeted by the brothel keeper, Mother Needham; in the background Colonel Francis Charteris stands at a doorway. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1732.
  • Taboga Island, Panama: a row of grass-roofed village houses; a woman holding a baby and a child stand in one doorway. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • A couple of country folk consulting an aged doctor; a servant smiles menacingly in the doorway. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A woman with a basket of fruit, and a boy, offer fruit to a woman in the doorway of her house. Oil painting by S. Jenner.
  • A woman with a basket of fruit, and a boy, offer fruit to a woman in the doorway of her house. Oil painting by S. Jenner.
  • A woman with a basket of fruit, and a boy, offer fruit to a woman in the doorway of her house. Oil painting by S. Jenner.
  • A couple of country folk consulting an aged doctor; a servant smiles menacingly in the doorway. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A woman with a basket of fruit, and a boy, offer fruit to a woman in the doorway of her house. Oil painting by S. Jenner.
  • A Sinhalese devil wearing a lungi with a scarf draped around his head, stands under a doorway entwined with snakes. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • A woman entering a doorway holds her hand out with money in it to the family gathered on the doorstep. Engraving by J. Saddler after G. Doré.
  • King George IV having his gouty foot massaged by his mistress Marchioness of Hertford while his wife Queen Caroline listens in the doorway. Coloured etching, ca. 1820.
  • Two women (or a woman and a man) with four children in the doorway of a stone house in Rome. Etching by William Young Ottley after himself.
  • A group of men playing a game outside with a ball and nine pins, a woman watches from a doorway. Engraving by A. Laurent, 1743, after David Teniers.
  • Two men are sitting outside a cottage playing draughts; a woman is in the doorway holds a child and a jug. Aquatint by D. Landini after J. Burnet.
  • Two young children (Hansel and Gretel?) walk away hand in hand from a cottage, watched by a dog in the doorway and an old woman at the window. Lithograph.
  • A young woman lies prostrate in the arms of her brother ouotside a rural house as another woman comes through the doorway. Engraving by Edward Finden after W.H. Brooke.
  • Two men are sitting outside a cottage playing a game of draughts, a woman is standing in the doorway holding a baby and a jug. Engraving by C. Beyer after J. Burnet.
  • Two men are sitting outside a cottage playing draughts; a woman is in the doorway holding a child and a jug. Aquatint by J.P.M. Jazet, 1821-1822, after J. Burnet.
  • God, supported by three angels, appearing to Noah, who kneels before him while a boy sleeps in his arms; Noah's wife, with two children emerges from a doorway behind. Collotype after M. Raimondi after Raphael.
  • A prostitute wearing a short tight skirt steps between a doorway into a corridor raising her arm with her bag and some tissues; advertisement for safe sex by the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC). Colour lithograph.
  • A guardroom: an officer holds up a map to show to a man smoking a long pipe, another man sits at a writing desk, others talk in the doorway. Engraving by J. Houbraken after C. Troost.
  • "The adventures of Al Capote: a killer called AIDS" with a graphic couple kissing and the silhouette of a man in a hat holding a gun within a lit doorway; an advertisement by the Agence Française Lutte Contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
  • A man walking arm in arm with a woman looks back with temptation at another woman standing in a doorway representing a warning to stick to one partner; a safe-sex advertisement by the National AIDS Programme of Trinidad & Tobago. Colour lithograph by Everald Clarke, ca. 1990's.
  • A rat-catcher and his young assistant standing outside a doorway having their services refused by an old man: the rat-catcher holds a long stick with a cage on top of it containing rats, on his right shoulder sits a rat. Etching after Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1632.
  • A woman sitting on her bed while dressing herself; a dog sleeps next to her, a pair of shoes are strewn across the floor in front of her, and a musical instrument, skull, book and a flower lay in the doorway to the room. Photogravure after J. Steen, 1663.