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  • Four diagrams illustrating how to put on a condom with a message: "rest assured, the first time [of having sex] is as simple as reading a book"; advertisement for the Fil Santé Jeunes, Ecoute Gaie and SIDA Info Service by the Ministère de la Santé Publique et de l'Assurance Maladie. Colour lithograph.
  • Parturition chair, folded for storage or transport. Adjustable back and arm rests. Leg rests missing.
  • Opiologia. Or, a treatise concerning the nature, properties, true preparation and safe use and administration of opium. For the comfort ... of all such persons as are inwardly afflicted with any extreame griefe, or languishing paine, especially such as deprive the body of all naturall rest, and can be cured by no other meanes ... / Done into English, and something inlarged by Thomas Bretnor.
  • Obstetrics, Single crotchet with finger rests on handle.
  • Parturition chair. French, 18th century. With legs rests, movable back and arms with handgrips.
  • Tony Nelson-Machholz, a strongman and acrobat, rests his head on his fist. Process print, 1914.
  • Tony Nelson-Machholz, a strongman and acrobat, rests his head on his fist. Process print, 1914.
  • David rests his hand on Goliath's severed head. Lithograph by B-R. Julien, 1845, after G. Reni.
  • A naked woman rests her hands on her hips then behind her head. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • James Pullen, sitting on the end of a wooden trolley upon which rests a huge model ship made by him. Process print.
  • A seated man in a double-breasted coat smoking a pipe while he rests on a crutch under his left arm. Line engraving with etching.
  • A young woman rests by the side of the road, her companion carries a case. Engraving by F. A. Heath, 1852, after E.H. Corbould.
  • Speculum ægrotorum: the sicke-mens glasse: or a plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies; with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of whate complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking, rest and exercise, worketh in euery person: with certain speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight / Composed by John Fage.
  • The birth of the Virgin Mary, Anna rests in bed while the child is looked at in wonder. Line engraving by R. van Audenaerd after A. Carracci.
  • The birth of the Virgin Mary, Anna rests in bed while Mary is looked at in wonderment. Engraving by B. Eredi after G. Perraccini after A. Carracci.
  • A young woman rests back in her chair as one young man leans his elbow on the mantelpiece and another sits easily in a second chair. Engraving.
  • En 1981, la maladie apparaissait... : 30 ans après, la lutte contre le sida reste capitale : l'expo Sex in the City s'installe à Bastille du 19 novembre au 4 décembre / Solidarité Sida en partenariat avec la Mairie de Paris.
  • En 1981, la maladie apparaissait... : 30 ans après, la lutte contre le sida reste capitale : l'expo Sex in the City s'installe à Bastille du 19 novembre au 4 décembre / Solidarité Sida en partenariat avec la Mairie de Paris.
  • The Royal United Hospital, Bath: the library (?) with a small table laid for dining and a larger table on which rests a portable desk. Photograph, ca. 1870.
  • A pregnant woman rests by a tree: advert for a video 'Time To Care' to mark World Health Day 1998. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health, 1998.
  • A clothed woman lies on her left side on the ground, head resting on her left hand. She raises herself from the hips, turns away from the camera and rests on her right elbow. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Peace: a family rests and plays on the turret of a building, the bell rope is broken and they can enjoy peace. Engraving by P. Lightfoot after James Drummond.
  • A husband holds his new born baby as his wife rests in bed: promoting health facilities for safe childbirth in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Two peasants hold a red robe; cherubs blow wind and Mercury rests on water below; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
  • The birth of Saint Edmund, he is being nursed by a midwife while his mother rests in bed and is aided by assistants, 1433. Aquatint by H. Shaw, 1843.
  • Processing of tea (?) (Camellia sinensis) in China: one man carries a tray of leaves towards the oven for firing, while another rests and takes tea. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.
  • An old man rests his head on his hand; cherubs play in a room filled with mechanical instruments; representing mechanical philosophy (or 18th century physics). Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1816.
  • An almost deserted street in London in the early morning: a woman serves a man and a boy with a hot drink, and a policeman rests against a bollard. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • A naked woman sits on the ground, lowers herself onto her left side, head resting on her left hand. She raises herself from the hips, turns and rests on her right elbow before raising herself onto her knees, back still to the camera. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A kneeling woman in a broad straw hat, holding a pipe; a shamisen rests against the reed fence to the right; the view behind is a view of Fuji from Mukōjima. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1854.