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  • Fishing: net-makers' equipment and tools. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Twenty hands shown in various postures, movements and deeds. Drawing, c. 1793.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured etching, ca. 1825.
  • Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Etching by L. Flameng after Rembrandt, 1632.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured line engraving.
  • A rosary, a medallion of St Benedict, a charm said to cause loss of eyesight, and hands showing lines and features to be interpreted by palmistry (including lines forecasting violent death); all illustrating 'superstition'. Engraving.
  • Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Etching by J. de Frey, 1798, after Rembrandt, 1632.
  • Hands engaged in different activities from top left, holding a ring to bottom right, clenching a fist; an advertisement about the benefit of helping children with AIDS. Photocopy.
  • Study of a hand. Charcoal drawing by A. Mongrédien, 28 July 1881.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured etching, ca. 1825.
  • Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeon's Guild of Amsterdam. Mezzotint after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1632.
  • The hand of Fatima (daughter of Muhammad) surrounded by Islamic symbols and used as a good luck charm. Process print.
  • Hands and feet in outline. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • A bird sitting in the cupped palms of a pair of hands with a verse below in Swedish. Colour lithograph by Ted Bates, ca. 1995.
  • The dream of Saint John Damascene: the Virgin attaches his severed right hand. Drawing, 16--.
  • On the application of suitable mechamism to a case of amputation of both hands / by F. Gustav Ernst.
  • Nicolaus Tulp demonstrating anatomy to seven syndics of the Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam. Etching by J. de Frey, 1798, after Rembrandt, 1632.
  • Herod and Pontius Pilate shake hands. Etching by F.A. Ludy after J.F. Overbeck, 1845.
  • Three sets of arms joining hands, advertising World AIDS Day in Catalonia on 1 December 1989. Colour lithograph, 1989.
  • A human hand with smallpox pustules. Coloured etching by W.T. Strutt.
  • On the application of suitable mechamism to a case of amputation of both hands / by F. Gustav Ernst.
  • Engineering: three kinds of lathe. Engraving by T. Jefferys.
  • Bones of a hand. Radiograph, 1900/1904.
  • Two male hands shake with the message 'Menschlich Sein' [human] with a list of ways in which AIDS is not transmitted; a message by the Minister for Health and Social Affairs. Colour lithograph.
  • Two hands, clasping one another. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Line engraving, 1748.
  • The French sign language alphabet with ornate border, above it, the Abbé C.M. de l'Epée and the Abbé Sicard. Lithograph.
  • The muscles of the hand, after Albinus, and of the foot, after De Courcelles. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.