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  • Textiles: lace making, laying out the warp threads (top), and details of the frame and tools (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Lucotte.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams: raised upright. Photograph, 1901.
  • Stonehenge, England: Professor William Gowland (centre) watching the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and pulleys. Photograph, 1901.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams: north east view. Photograph, 1901.
  • The Blessed (subsequently Saint) Francis Caracciolo, standing between two cherubim, surrounded by a rococo frame. Etching by D. de San Román y Codina, 1770.
  • The forge of a blacksmith, with a harness and frame for use in the shoeing of horses. Etching by R. Bénard after Harguinier, 1760/1790?.
  • Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris: coat of arms and inscription surrounded by a carved frame and a border of oak garlands. Engraving by F. Ertinger.
  • Marshalls' preparations of wheat... : containing all the elements necessary for the sustenance and growth of the human frame / made by James & Thos. Marshall.
  • A woman posing wrapped in a sheet, looking through a screen giving the effect of the frame of a looking-glass, in a photographic studio.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams and pulleys: raised upright. Photograph, 1901.
  • Marshalls' preparations of wheat... : containing all the elements necessary for the sustenance and growth of the human frame / made by James & Thos. Marshall.
  • An ornate stone frame in which four atlantes support an entablature on which a scholar and Hercules support the globe of the earth. Engraving, 1569.
  • St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: a boy lying on his stomach supported by a body-length plaster frame. Photograph, c. 1935.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams and pulleys: raised upright. Photograph, 1901.
  • The execution of a Christian prisoner in Algeria by suspending him from a wooden frame by hooks penetrating his right arm and leg. Etching with engraving.
  • Two boys peep round a door frame into a room where a woman is reading to other young children. Engraving by T. Phillibrown after T. Webster.
  • A manacled man standing before a jury in a courtroom making gestures of protest while being confined in a spiked frame. Etching by J. van der Gucht.
  • Regensburg (Ratisbon), Bavaria, Germany: bird's eye view of the town with an ornamental frame showing scenes from the plague. Etching by J.A. Fridrich with printed text.
  • A man drawing the silhouette of a seated woman on translucent paper suspended in a frame and lit by a candle. Etching by J.R. Schellenberg, 1783.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi. Wood engraving by J.B.C. Carbonneau after A. Cabasson after B.E. Murillo with frame engraved by E. Sotain after H. Catenacci.
  • A naked man resting his arm on a frame of broken window; representing unsafe sex in AIDS transmission. Colour lithograph after H.G. Kegel and S. Schmidt, 199-.
  • Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.
  • Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.
  • World War I: a convalescent soldier in a walking frame is running at speed while smoking a cigarette, endangering an older man and woman. Postcard after E. Jones, 1917.
  • A toddler in a walking frame is kicking bottles of sedatives, representing the preference for clean bottle-feeding over pharmaceutical sedatives for infants. Colour process print after F. Poulbot.
  • Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations / With a life by his son, David, and notes and additions by H.A. Pistorius, translated from the German.
  • Advertisement for the Inventions Exhibition, South Kensington; with groups of elegant men and women in a London street, within a frame decorated with winged boys and flowers. Engraving, 1885, after F. Bartolozzi.
  • Number of votes in a plebiscite on the appointment of Prince Louis Napoleon as prince-president of France in 1852; in a frame decorated with the dove of peace. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1853.
  • A naked man baring one leg and part of his groin with one hand resting on a window frame; advertising safe sex services provided by Mannometer. Colour lithograph by S. Schmidt and H.G. Kegel, 199-.
  • A young woman is sitting in a chair with a tapestry in a frame in front of her, trying to be distracted from the thought of her forced marriage. Engraving by W.H. Simmons, 1840, after J.H. Nixon.