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  • A boy plays a tune as a man dances and encourages a bear on a rope to dance as well, another chained bear is close by with a monkey on its back. Engraving by Giovanni Volpato after Francesco Maggiotto.
  • A black man in vest and shorts with a skipping rope over one shoulder holding a towel; an advertisement about the risk of AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Black and white lithograph, 1991
  • Acrobats: a woman lying on top of a pole holding on to a boy tied to one end of a rope, while someone in a penguin costume watches a man do a headstand. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Burdett, Peel, O'Connell and Wellington in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull with a rope; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.
  • A man wrapped up in pink paper tied with a rope to which is tied a question mark; an advertisement for a safe sex workshop by the Asocicion Ciudadana de Lucha Contra el SIDA y Autoapoyo entre los Afectados T-4. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A Chinese man is lying on an horizontal pillory while two Chinese men are tying a rope around the wooden structure at its base and a third man is hammering on a pole in order to crush the victim's ankles. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A cartoon-figure called 'Leo' juggles a video, a bottle, a condom, a syringe and a pill box while standing on a tight-rope above a crater against a starry night sky; advertising the 2nd 'Stop AIDS' festival in Mainz, 1990. Colour lithograph by Klaus.
  • Two personified male and female symbols, the male wearing a condom with a rope bearing the label 'de sexo seguro'; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas and Centro Nacional de Educacion para la salud Ministerio de Salud Publica, Cuba. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Ship-building: ropes and blocks. Engraving.
  • Ship-building: ropes, blocks, and rigging. Engraving.
  • Ship-building: ropes, blocks, and chains. Engraving.
  • Ship-building: ropes, blocks, and rigging. Engraving.
  • A group of men wearing black and white cheque head-scarves pull a rope across a yellow winning line on a chequered floor with the words 'pride' and care' across the background; the calendar months for 1993 and 1994 below highlight Lesbian and Gay Week in the City of Vancouver, AIDS Awareness Week and World AIDS Day; calandar by AIDS Vancouver. Colour lithograph by Tom Lovis and Ion Design, Inc.
  • A group of men wearing black and white cheque head-scarves pull a rope across a yellow winning line on a chequered floor with the words 'pride' and care' across the background; the calendar months for 1993 and 1994 below highlight Lesbian and Gay Week in the City of Vancouver, AIDS Awareness Week and World AIDS Day; calandar by AIDS Vancouver. Colour lithograph by Tom Lovis and Ion Design, Inc.
  • Ship-building: ropes, a windlass, and a capstan. Engraving.
  • A series of torn images including a bird in flight, camels in the desert, a child crying, a couple making love in an open-topped car, a crowd of semi-naked men, a tied rope and a tranquil river landscape; an advertisement in Basque for a programme of events to mark 1st December, World AIDS Day on the theme of AIDS and the family by the Guipuzkoako Hies Kontrako Elkarte Hiritarra/Asociación Ciudadana Anti-SIDA de Gipuzkoa. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Hooks, ropes and a lancet used by Hindu ascetics for self-torture. Engraving, 1798.
  • Liverpool, England: a ship storage area at the port: neatly arranged ropes and equipment. Photograph, 1900/1920.
  • Four commedia dell'arte characters are raising a balloon by winching it up with ropes. Process print.
  • A ropemaker and his assistant making ropes for use in ships, building, and hunting. Woodcut by Jost Amman.
  • Stonehenge, England: straightening a leaning stone: pulleys, ropes and a wooden frame attached to the stone. Photograph, 1901.
  • A prison where a woman is pleading for mercy for her son whose hands are bound by ropes. Etching.
  • Native Indians catching wild elephants by snaring their feet with ropes. Engraving by T Medland, ca 1800, after S Bey.
  • A surgeon and two assistants using pulleys and ropes to aid traction for manipulating the body of a male patient. Woodcut, 1575.
  • Naked sailors having swimming lessons in Portsmouth, supported by ropes held by clothed sailors standing around the pool. Colour process print after J.S. Cribb, 190-.
  • Naked sailors having swimming lessons in Portsmouth, supported by ropes held by clothed sailors standing around the pool. Colour process print after J.S. Cribb, 190-.
  • A graph showing statistics for serious industrial accidents in Austria, 1927-1933: a devil tries to raise the statistics, workers with ropes try to lower them. Colour lithograph, ca. 1934.
  • Boston, Massachusetts: John Malcolm, a customs official, is lowered by ropes from his house on to a cart and tarred and feathered by a crowd protesting against taxation. Engraving by F. Godefroy, 1784.
  • Castor oil for cattle / Thomas Roper.
  • Fred Roper's wonderful midgets : Fred Roper with General Rollason: 2 ft. 10 in. high. 18 years old.