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  • The dance of death at Basel: death and the abbot. Lithograph by G. Danzer after H. Hess.
  • Dance of death: death and the merchant. Coloured etching and letterpress after J.-A. Chovin after the Basel dance of death.
  • The dance of death at Basel: death and the doctor. Lithograph by G. Danzer after H. Hess.
  • Dance of death: death and the abbot. Coloured etching and letterpress after J.-A. Chovin after the Basel dance of death.
  • The dance of death at Basel: death and the alderman. Lithograph by G. Danzer after H. Hess.
  • Dance of death: death and the executioner. Coloured etching and letterpress after J.-A. Chovin after the Basel dance of death.
  • Peter walks on water towards Christ. Etching.
  • A couple and their child consulting a pharmacist in his shop, an apprentice is mixing up a concoction with a large pestle and mortar. Soft-ground etching.
  • Adam names the animals in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • The dance of death at Basel: death and the count. Lithograph by G. Danzer after H. Hess.
  • A dwarfish alchemist, caricatured because of the vanity of his obsession. Line engraving, c. 1720.
  • Christ on the Cross. Coloured woodcut and letterpress.
  • Jesus calls the fishermen from the sea to be his apostles. Etching by J. Wachsmuth after J.C. Tardieu and C.J. Vernet.
  • Simon Pauli. Line engraving by A. Frölich.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • The dance of death. Oil painting.
  • Men diving into the Fleet ditch, London; representing the activities of political scandal-mongers. Process print after C. Grignion after F. Hayman.
  • Men diving into the Fleet ditch, London; representing the activities of political scandal-mongers. Process print after C. Grignion after F. Hayman.
  • A white slave-owner handing a knife to a black enslaved man. Engraving by F. Engleheart, 1832, after W. Harvey.
  • Reynard the fox is lowering himself into a well by sitting on the well-bucket, while the wolf is raised out of the well by the same move. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.
  • Norbert Ortner: joining, or appearing before (?), an investigation at Vienna University . Line block after Rudolf Herrmann, 1924.
  • A group of children holding song books and singing. Process print after Marie Seymour Lucas.
  • Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • The first verse of a poem entitled, "Rheinweinlied", surrounded by an ornamental design with a large wine glass. Etching, 1842.
  • An unwell woman bombarded by her five friends' different recommendations of a doctor. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1882.
  • Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Poor Henry consults a doctor in Salerno about his leprosy: they sit opposite each other in the doctor's study while the doctor explains his remedy. Aquatint by F. Hegi, 1810.
  • A man sits and paints a picture of the exiled Adam and Eve; his wife suckles a baby; representing the thirtieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.