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  • Orphans.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
  • A man removing a plaster; representing the sense of touch. Oil painting by Lucas Franchoys II.
  • Orphans.
  • The doctor.
  • Death and the miser. Oil painting by Frans Francken II.
  • A standing figure in a red aureole surrounded by red crosses; representing virtue, pain and anger. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.