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  • Wizards and witches offering a new-born baby to their master. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Wizards and witches offering a new-born baby to their master. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Cain killing Abel. Etching.
  • Cain violently kills Abel. Engraving by Jan Muller after Cornelis van Harlem.
  • A young woman in Genoa is being proposed to, watched anxiously by her brother. Engraving by S. Davenport after S.J.E. Jones.
  • A young woman is weeping as she is being offered in marriage by her mother to a old, lame man. Engraving by J. Goldar after J. Collet, 1767.
  • The torments of Job under a swirling sky dominated by God. Engraving by M. van Heemskerck, 1563.
  • Judaic rituals in the Old Testament. Engraving.
  • The adoration of the shepherds. Etching by F. Berardi after G. Magni after C. Dolci.
  • Enoch in the clouds above a group of people at a festival. Etching.
  • Sins and subsequent punishment in Hell. Chromolithograph.
  • An extremely detailed survey of the activities surrounding the building of the tower of Babel. Engraving, c. 1680.
  • An episode in the play Olimpie by Voltaire: Olympia throws herself on the fire out of her love for Cassander, the murderer of her father Alexander the Great. Etching by Walker after H. Gravelot.
  • The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth. Engraving, 1588, after F. Baroccio.
  • Athenians wearing masks celebrate the vintage by dancing around a statue of Bacchus and sacrificing a goat to him. Engraving by P. Lombard, 1654, after F. Cleyn.
  • Cain kills Abel. Engraving by M. van der Gucht after G. Hoet.
  • The Temple of Solomon: aerial view, with flames billowing from the sacrificial altar. Wood engraving.
  • Rama fighting his sons Lava and Kusa with Hanuman helping. Watercolour drawing.
  • The adoration of the shepherds. Etching by D. Piola the elder.
  • Cain bends over the dead Abel; Cain flees in the background. Etching by F. Hortemels, 1729, after A. Sacchi.
  • The circumcision of Christ. Etching by J.M. Giovannini after G. Reni.
  • The circumcision of Christ. Etching by J.M. Giovannini after G. Reni.
  • The birth of Christ among ruins. Engraving by J. Sadeler after Polidoro da Caravaggio.
  • Judaic rituals and ritual artifacts from the Old Testament. Engraving.
  • The tabernacle erected in the wilderness, surrounded by an enclosure and miles of tents. Coloured etching by W. Dickes.
  • Three marble vases and a sarcophagus. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, ca. 1770.
  • David Livingstone memorial in Blantyre; Livingstone found dead, kneeling beside his bed. Photoprint.
  • First World War: two soldiers, one badly wounded, being comforted on the battlefield by a vision of Christ. Colour halftone after G. Hillyard Swinstead, 1915.
  • Two details from the triumphal arch in the courtyard of William III of Orange in The Hague, depicting victorious warriors returning from battle with a loot containing slaves. Etching.
  • Jephthah's daughter contemplating her virginity and her imminent death, surrounded by woeful attendants with musical instruments. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1846, after H. O'Neil.