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  • Saint Jerome. Engraving by G. Audran after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
  • Aaron staying the plague. I. Taylor after I. Taylor junior, 1815.
  • A funeral in a French church: the coffin is sprayed with holy water and lowered into the grounds of the church. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • A coffin layed out on a bier in a chapel surrounded by a choir. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • The Tarakeshwar murder: Elokeshi offers a betel-leaf to the seated Mahant. Watercolour drawing.
  • Vaccination against smallpox: a young Turkmen being vaccinated, contrasted with an elderly Turkmen who is blinded and disfigured by smallpox. Colour lithograph, 193-.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: a monk ringing the bell. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.
  • Travellers at the tomb of Aaron, on the summit of Mount Hor, near Petra. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: a monk ringing the bell. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-1871.
  • Maimed soldiers dragging themselves to a hospital. Etching, 1730, after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Criminal soldiers are broken on the wheel on a scaffold in the middle of a marketplace. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • Saint Teresa: she is encouraged by Christ to bring aid to Bernardino de Mendoza in purgatory by building a convent on land given to her by Bernardino. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: three monks at the meal table. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-18711.
  • The baptism of Tristram Shandy. Etching by J. Heath, 1780, after W. Hogarth.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: three monks at the meal table. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-18711.
  • Peasants avenging themselves by attacking soldiers from woods next to a country road. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • The face of a woman against a black background bearing the red lettering: "Dass das Leben zu ende Sein kann, noch ehe es begonnen hat, mag für dich unvorstellebar Sein; für mich aber wird es ... zur realitä'; an advertisement for an Ecumenical service at the Protestant Episocopal Church in Bischofszell on Sunday, 29 August on the theme of: 'AIDS - a punishment from God? by Pastors H. Miller and M. Keller with representatives of AIDS-Hilfe Thurgau. Colour lithograph.
  • Personifications of law, medicine and theology argue over the superiority of their respective professions. Engraving by GWHWHNM, ca. 1720.
  • Wayside temple, China
  • Simeon holds the Christ child, who is holding an apple. Mezzotint by H. Dawe after G. Reni.
  • Christ beaten and mocked before Caiaphas. Etching by J. Callot, 1630.
  • China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A message about how Jesus does not discriminate against those with AIDS by Mokukchung, a Christian Pastor in India; an AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Simeon holds the Christ child, who is holding an apple. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1778, after G. Farington after G. Reni.
  • The marriage of Mary and Joseph. Etching after C. Maratta.
  • Jeremiah sits amidst the rubble of Jerusalem, after its siege and destruction in 586 B.C. Lithograph by B. Weiss after E.J.F. Bendemann.
  • The presentation of the Virgin in the Temple. Engraving by H. Wierix.
  • A fat parson with large glass of port in hand is watched by a thin, naked man representing care (worry), and tells him to be gone. Coloured etching after G. Woodward, 1796.
  • Elisha raises the Shunamite's son. Engraving by H. Moses, 1814, after B. West, ca. 1766.
  • Abbé Guillaume Raynal. Drawing, c. 1789.