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  • A shopkeeper sews up his wife's mouth to stop her from nagging. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Saint Joseph practises carpentry assisted by the Christ Child, while Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) sews. Engraving by J. Couché, 1786, after Annibale Carracci.
  • A man and a woman sit contentedly in their room, he is smoking a pipe while she sews. Etching by H. Struck after Claus Meyer.
  • A maker of shoes and boots is selling shoes to a woman at the window of his workshop, as his assistants sew and hammer footwear. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A young woman tending to a cut on her finger from which drops of blood fall. Line engraving by F. Basan, 17--, after N. Berchem (?).
  • Claybury Asylum, Woodford, Essex: a linen room. Photograph by the London & County Photographic Co., [1893?].
  • A girl is wearing a very elaborate gown which is being altered at the waist by a woman with a needle and thread. Wood engraving by TB.
  • A little girl in Elizabethan costume stands in a room trying to thread a needle. Etching by A. Boulard the younger after Laura Alma Tadema.
  • Needle and thread stitching up a wound, artwork
  • A tailor and assistant at work. Gouache drawing.
  • The angel Gabriel announces the birth of Jesus to Mary; the light of the Holy Spirit alights on her brow. Etching by V. Lefebvre, c. 1670, after Titian.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: a female dormitory. Wood engraving by F. Vizetelly after F. Palmer, 1860.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the female workroom. Wood engraving probably by F. Vizetelly after F. Palmer, 1860.
  • While Joseph works in his carpenter's shop, the angel steals into the house and announces the birth of Christ to Mary. Engraving by J. Sadeler, ca. 1615, after J. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • The Virgin reads her Bible as the angel appears with the Holy Spirit. Engraving by J. Collaert after J. Straet.
  • Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • The Virgin looks away from her Bible as the angel appears, bearing lilies. Engraving by C. Visscher after A. de Weerdt.
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin, who stands before a lectern. Engraving after F. Zuccaro.
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin. Engraving by Hendrik Goltzius, 1594.
  • The Annunciation to the Virgin. Engraving by Hendrik Goltzius, 1594.
  • The charity of Saint Nicholas. Oil painting.
  • The charity of Saint Nicholas. Oil painting.
  • A surgical operation on the knee of an elderly woman. Soft-ground etching and aquatint by Virginia Powell, ca. 1996.
  • Home, health and happiness / Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
  • Home, health and happiness / Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
  • Home, health and happiness / Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
  • Home, health and happiness / Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
  • Queen Alexandra's Hospital for Children with Hip Disease, Queen Square, Holborn: the interior of a ward, with a teacher giving a gymnastics lesson. Photogravure after A. Forestier, 1908.
  • Women making lace. Watercolour after Q. van Brekelenkam.
  • Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR), x-ray analysis