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  • "Horror" from le Brun, Heads. Representing the various passions of the soul..., circa 1760
  • "Simple...pain" from le Brun, Heads. Representing the various passions of the soul..., circa 1760
  • An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.
  • An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.
  • An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.
  • "Sadness" from Le Brun, Heads representing the various passions, of the soul , circa 1800
  • "Acute pain" from le Brun, Heads. Representing the various passions of the soul..., circa 1760
  • An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.
  • An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.
  • A blacksmith's forge, in which Divine Love prepares to hammer two hearts into one, with the aid of the Soul, who operates the bellows. Coloured etching, 16--.
  • A blacksmith's forge, in which Divine Love prepares to hammer two hearts into one, with the aid of the Soul, who operates the bellows. Coloured etching, 16--.
  • Saint Benedict: his soul ascending to heaven as a sign of his patronage of the dying. Line engraving, 17--.
  • Heads. Representing the various passions of the soul; as they are expressed in the human countenance / [Charles Le Brun].
  • Heads. Representing the various passions of the soul; as they are expressed in the human countenance / [Charles Le Brun].
  • Heads. Representing the various passions of the soul; as they are expressed in the human countenance / [Charles Le Brun].
  • Heads. Representing the various passions of the soul; as they are expressed in the human countenance / [Charles Le Brun].
  • A man dies and his soul ascends to heaven. Etching by Karel van Mallery after Jan van der Straet.
  • A man looking upwards (the soul), being strangled by an angry man and a man representing religious fear of death. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A man looking upwards (the soul), being strangled by an angry man and a man representing religious fear of death. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • Bowles's Passions of the soul / represented in several heads; engraved in the manner of drawings in chalk, from the designs of ... M. le Brun.
  • A deathbed: a man breathes his last, the devil flies down and grabs his soul (in the form of a baby) from his mouth. Engraving, 16--.
  • An anchoress or nun of an enclosed order locked in her cell; representing the monastic cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured engraving, 16--.
  • The soul being refined like metal in a crucible by an angel, Satan, Venus and Death; representing a test of faith. Etching by C. Murer, ca. 1600-1614.
  • The soul being refined like metal in a crucible by an angel, Satan, Venus and Death; representing a test of faith. Etching by C. Murer, ca. 1600-1614.
  • Frontispiece to an English edition of Charles Le Brun's 'Expressions of the passions of the soul' (left); a face expressing attention. Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • A dying Parsee with a small dog held with its muzzle to his mouth, to receive his departing soul. Engraving attributed to C. du Bosc after B. Picart, ca. 1730.
  • Spirit canoe, Alaska. Among the Kwakiutle people of British Columbia it was customary to release a spirit canoe in the water, when a body was buried near a shore, in order to send the soul or spirit of the dead person on its journey.
  • None Such pie fruits : raspberry, peach, apricot / Merrell-Soule Co.
  • [Keiromantia sic]: or, the art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man .... Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19 genitures. Together with a ... discourse of the soul of the world .... / Written originally in Latine ... and now faithfully Englished, by Geo. Wharton.
  • A male and female frog promenading. Photograph by J.P. Soule, ca. 1876, after a drawing.