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  • The muscles of the arm and hand. Pen and ink, with pink and brown watercolour washes, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • Male skeleton, front view, with right hand raised to its face. Pen and ink drawing with sepia wash, by H. Goodall, 1860/1870.
  • Male écorché, front view, with right hand raised to its face. Pen and ink drawing with wash and bodycolour, by H. Goodall, 1860/1870.
  • The muscles of the arm and hand. Pen and ink, with pink and grey watercolour washes, by C. Landseer after B. Albinus, ca. 1815.
  • The muscles, bones and tendons of the arm and hand. Pen and ink, with pink, brown and blue watercolour washes, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.
  • Écorché leg of man riding a horse, and écorché hand with outstretched palm. Pencil and ink wash drawing, after an unidentified work on anatomy, ca. 1830(?).
  • The birth of the Virgin Mary, her mother Anne washes her hands before being given food and drink by attendants. Photolithograph after a painting by B. Daddi.
  • The birth of the Virgin Mary, her mother Anne washes her hands before being given food and drink by attendants. Photolithograph after a painting by B. Daddi.
  • A girl holds a chicken on a plate as a man washes his hands: protecting against avian flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by UNICEF and Longman, ca. 2000.
  • A girl holds a chicken on a plate as a man washes his hands: protecting against avian flu in Kenya. Colour lithograph by UNICEF and Longman, ca. 2000.
  • Native Americans shake hands with a Western visitor, who is shown standing beside a sledge drawn by dogs; wigwams are seen in the background. Pencil and brown wash.
  • A father assists a boy who washes his hands from a container of water hanging from a branch: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • A father assists a boy who washes his hands from a container of water hanging from a branch: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • Standing skeleton, seen from the side, resting right elbow on a pedestal, with left hand resting on a skull. Pen and ink wash drawing by J. Mallcott after A. Vesalius, 1796.
  • A naked woman places a wooden bucket onto the floor, kneels on her right knee, squeezes the water from a sponge and begins to wash the ground with it in her right hand. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A midwife washes a newborn baby while a kneeling attendant proffers a robe with which to wrap it; left, an attendant brings food to the mother whose hand can be glimpsed behind a screen. Woodcut by Nishikawa Sukenobu, 1716/1736.
  • A Muslim man at his ablutions being attended by two servants. Engraving by J.B. Simonet after J.B. Hilaire.
  • A boy washing his face beneath a leaky tin hanging from a tree: saving and use of water in Kenya. Colour lithograph by AMREF, ca. 2000.
  • Prevention of food poisoning by covering hand infections with a plaster, avoiding touching food, and keeping hands clean. Colour lithograph, ca. 1963 (?).
  • Prevention of food poisoning by covering hand infections with a plaster, avoiding touching food, and keeping hands clean. Colour lithograph, ca. 1963.
  • Three Japanese women washing: One in a wooden tub, one standing and one crouching over a small wooden tub on the floor. Coloured photograph.
  • Tippy tap for handwashing
  • Illustrated guide to preventing cholera in Kenya. Lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • Sunlight : my soap is my fortune sir, she said / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Sunlight : my soap is my fortune sir, she said / Lever Brothers Ltd.
  • Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Borax extract of soap makes washing a pleasure.
  • Health promotion: demonstration of face washing
  • A woman in bed recovering from childbirth, a midwife washes the baby while another attendant looks after the mother. Woodcut.
  • Some good reasons for using Sunlight Soap / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].