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  • A chiropractor treating a patient. Taken from a emakimonos, or horizontal scroll, in the Shijo style.
  • Saint Anne with Mary as child, teaching her to read. Here only the book and scroll are shown.
  • The Muse Polyhymnia seated with attributes of eloquence: a scroll, two books, and a caduceus. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 1592.
  • The Virgin, reading a scroll on a prie-dieu, is visited by the announcing angel. Engraving by M. van der Gucht.
  • Yama...ya Mimasu as the villain Nikki Danjo, holding a scroll; with a stage curtain behind. Colour woodcut by Kunichika, 1866.
  • King William IV holding a scroll of the Magna Carta in his right hand. Mezzotint by D. Lucas after R. Bowyer, 1830.
  • Adam looks in wonder at the divine cosmological plan, represented above him in astronomical figures on a scroll; Eve looks at Adam. Etching.
  • Two figures roll out a scroll of paper with a landscape design on it, watched by a third. Gouache by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • The Holy Family resting on the flight into Egypt: Saint John the Baptist offers a scroll to the Christ Child. Engraving by Diana Scultori after Raphael.
  • A Chinese figure wearing black silk robes with a green border, richly decorated with cloud scroll designs in gold thread. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Ethiopian Scroll comprising prayers against various ailments, including chest pains, the expulsion of evil spirits causing sickness and the protection of suckling infants. This illustration shows Susenyos spearing the demon, a popular motif in Ethiopean art similar to St George slaying the dragon.
  • A man holds a scythe as winged creatures fly above him, three figures approach on a horse, and another figure approaches from the left with a scroll. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
  • Five men sitting around a table; Hermes flying in the sky, holding the caduceus and a scroll of paper; a city (Nuremberg) in the background. Engraving by M. van Somer, 1661.
  • A pale pink ribbon decorated with a celtic scroll with a list of Aids helplines; advertisement by the Red Ribbon Project as part of an Irish Aids Prevention Initiative for World Aids Day. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman standing in a market place, a scroll in her left hand, a caduceus in her right, while to her right a play is performed, to her left two men are debating; representing Rhetoric. Engraving after M. de Vos.
  • Heuchera 'Silver Scrolls'
  • An Arabic man dressed in a white cloak and red headpiece holding a scroll banner showing the male and female signs, a needle about to inject into an arm, a man having a blood transmission and a fetus within the womb of a pregnant woman; an advertisement about the dangers of drugs and transmission of AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • Illustrated tantric scroll showing rewards devotees receive from worship and obedience to demi-gods. At the top, a mythical creature displaying features of various animals, e. g. tail of a peacock, the bill of a crow etc. Below, to the left, Mahakala and Mahakali, god and goddess of fire are illustrated, with to the right the Hakini or demi-god with seven faces, the middle face having three eyes.
  • Illustrated tantric scroll showing rewards devotees receive from worship and obedience to demi-gods. At the top, a mythical creature displaying features of various animals, e. g. tail of a peacock, the bill of a crow etc. Below, to the left, Mahakala and Mahakali, god and goddess of fire are illustrated, with to the right the Hakini or demi-god with seven faces, the middle face having three eyes.
  • Scrolls, grids and teardrops. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1975.
  • Kakejiku hanging scrolls depicting heroic figures. Colour woodcut, 1870s.
  • Red scrolls, stars and darts with cerise saltires. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
  • Red scrolls, stars and darts with cerise saltires. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
  • Three purple scrolls with a dense red grid superimposed. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1970.
  • Left, eight rows of verticals, gates and loops; right, eight rows of gates and scrolls. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • The coats of arms of Roger du Plessis and Jeanne de Schomberg and scrolls before a panorama of Liancourt. Etching by I. Silvestre.
  • A Chinese lucky charm decoration of of a scholar with scrolls and with children at his feet. Colour woodcut by a Chinese artist.
  • Beneath the broken equestrian statue of William III a group of robed politicians, including the Duke of Wellington, attack with scrolls Morrison the Mayor of Dublin, who collapses. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
  • Allegorical figures hold up two scrolls, separated by a spider's web: one shows a straight line between "Charitas" and "Iustitia"; the other a crooked line between "Invidia" and "Avaritia". Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • Above, detail of the decoration on the neck of the red-figured volute-krater also called "the Hamilton Vase", showing a female head emerging from an intricate design of scrolls and flowers; below left, detail of a handle; below right, detail of palm motif. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).