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  • Opened packets of condoms with the names of women sex partners; advertisement for safe sex by Scottish Aids Monitor. Lithograph.
  • Prince Genji in elegant modern dress in an elegant apartment with the blinds rolled up so he can enjoy the autumnal garden and listen to the cricket's song; a girl attendant pours him sake. Colour woodcut by Kunisada, 1860.
  • Tientsin, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Tientsin, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Tientsin, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Egypt: the temple of Isis at Philae. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1870.
  • Noah's entourage comes down from Mount Ararat; Noah makes a sacrifice. Etching by N.C. Goodnight.
  • The canonised Noah. Lithograph by J.G. Schreiner, c. 1840.
  • Helwan, Egypt; farm cultivation
  • Noah and his companions follow the animals into the Ark. Etching.
  • A theurgist performing rituals to exercise divine powers on earth. Coloured aquatint.
  • Works of mercy: just as water extinguishes fire, so works of mercy (with penitence) extinguish sin. Engraving attributed to T. Galle, 1601.
  • Agriculture: planting rice
  • The 'Garden of earthly delights'. Oil painting after Hieronymus Bosch.
  • The 'Garden of earthly delights'. Oil painting after Hieronymus Bosch.
  • The 'Garden of earthly delights'. Oil painting after Hieronymus Bosch.
  • The 'Garden of earthly delights'. Oil painting after Hieronymus Bosch.
  • The 'Garden of earthly delights'. Oil painting after Hieronymus Bosch.
  • Cap-Haitien, Haiti: the surgery of HMS Bulldog. Watercolour by E.L. Moss, 1865.
  • Agriculture: ponds, and pumping machines to drain them. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1825.
  • Tientsin, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Tientsin, Pechili province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Mecca: shrine of Kaʻbah within the Al-Haram mosque, with a view of the city. Lithograph, c. 1820.
  • Crowds gather as Christ heals sick people. Lithograph after Benjamin West.
  • A mother bearing her child's coffin in a funeral procession for victims of the plague. Colour lithograph after F. Jenewein, 1900.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: the foreign settlement. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Foochow, Fukien province, China: the foreign settlement. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • God appears in a circle surrounded by images from the stories of the Creation, Adam and Eve, and Noah. Line Engraving.
  • Land preparation: ploughing with water buffalo
  • A fat man who is supports his stomach on a wheelbarrow is followed to a restaurant by a poor, thin man carrying a basket of food on his head. Etching, 1777.