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  • A husband wearily pampers his pregnant wife. Lithograph by F. Bouchot, 1838.
  • MS Hebrew A2
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  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child and Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Etching by G.B. Cipriani after A.D. Gabbiani.
  • MS Hebrew A1
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  • An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Wood engraving after G. de Cari.
  • A vicar prays for a dying usurer while his wife receives medical advice. Mezzotint by B. Clowes after W. Dawes, 1768.
  • An abstinent gentleman is read to in the park by a boy. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • A man standing in a law court vows to reform to temperance. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • Egyptian Bryce papyrus, 280/250 BC
  • Saint Cecilia with Saint Paul the Apostle, Saint John the Evangelist, a bishop and Saint Mary Magdalene. Engraving by F. Rosaspina, 1830, after himself after Raphael.
  • The countess's levee: a barber dresses her hair while she converses with Silvertongue, her lawyer. Engraving by Simon François Ravenet after W. Hogarth, 1745.
  • Egyptian Bryce papyrus 280/250 BC
  • Saint Cecilia with Saint Paul the Apostle, Saint John the Evangelist, a bishop and Saint Mary Magdalen. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after Raphael.
  • Bathsheba brings the young maid Abishag to the aging King David for body heat. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1779, after G. Farington after A. van der Werff, 1696.
  • Squanderfield fatally wounded by a rapier leans back as his wife kneels before him; Silvertongue in his nightgown hastily escapes through a window. Engraving by Simon François Ravenet after William Hogarth, 1745.
  • Egyptian "Bryce papyrus" 280/250 BC
  • Saint Hermann Josef of Steinfeld as patron of pregnant women. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht, 17--.
  • An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).
  • An old, rich couple enjoy the latest fad in baton-powered enemas. Coloured engraving by G. de Cari (?).
  • Count de Peltzer lying mortally wounded on his bed attended by his fiancée Mlle de Benskow, her mother and her brother, and a boy bringing soup for the dying man. Etching after H.W. Bunbury.
  • A man reads a book while his wife cuts his toenails. Coloured etching after G. Piattoli, c. 1800.
  • The gnarled hands of 'sin' reaching out towards a woman in a figure-hugging dress representing 'lust' with a couple and a figure of death beside a grave; one of 4 drawings by students of C. C. Sweeting Senior High School, Nassau, Bahamas for World AIDS Day, November 1993. Photocopy reproduced from a drawing, 1993.