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  • A nun (Sister of Charity) feeding a sick patient. Line engraving by C. Duflos.
  • Miss Whitehead, an eccentric, known as the 'Bank Nun'. Reproduction of a stipple engraving.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
  • A nun wearing her habit holding a jug in the grounds of her convent. Watercolour.
  • Miss Whitehead, an eccentric, known as the 'Bank Nun'. Coloured lithograph by G.L. Lee.
  • A nun in her habit carrying medicine and her Bible, with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
  • A nun from the Hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome. Coloured line engraving by C. Duflos le père.
  • Héloïse as a nun in her cell contemplating the Holy Cross. Mezzotint by J.R. Smith, 1792.
  • A sheet with two sketches of a nun's head and a standing male figure painting. Pencil drawing.
  • A nun in a purple habit approaching a well near a Gothic building. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • A nun in a purple habit approaching a well near a Gothic building. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • A nun being visited in the monastery by female relatives. Engraving by S. Smith after Sir C.L. Eastlake.
  • A nursing nun, carrying a tray of food and hot drink, wearing the habit of her order. Watercolour drawing.
  • A nun in a mountainous landscape falls over a roadside wall into a precipice. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1957.
  • A nun in a mountainous landscape falls over a roadside wall into a precipice. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1957.
  • A communal bath house: women and children washing, a Buddhist nun shaving her head. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.
  • A baby is being taken care of by a nun in a convent. Etching by Alberto Maso Gilli after himself.
  • A nun with two children in a convent pharmacy, surrounded attributes of the trade. Lithograph by André after E. Pingret.
  • A nun brings some refreshment to a feverish patient, with a poem by Legouvé. Coloured lithograph by J.P. Moynet, 1846.
  • A nun of the order of St. Vincent de Paul dressing a wounded soldier's leg. Wash drawing by E. de Feu, 1832.
  • A nun wearing purple robes kneeling in a gothic church and being whipped with a red whip. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A nun wearing purple robes kneeling in a gothic church and being whipped with a red whip. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • Catalina d'Erauso, a Spanish nun who lived as a male soldier in America. Lithograph by A.L. Noël, 1833, after F. Pacheco.
  • A doctor and his patient laugh during a consultation; behind, a nun stands by the door. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A nursing nun in a pharmacy: with the hospital in the background. Lithograph by A.L. Noël, 1838, after F.J.J. Goetzenberger.
  • A nun supporting a sick child; representing the work of the Herwonnen Levenskracht movement in helping tuberculous children. Colour lithograph by M. Wiegman, ca. 1930.
  • A sick girl in bed being counselled by a nun while another woman looks anxious. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds, 1829, after R.P. Bonington.