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  • Skeletons of child and foetus, 16th Century
  • Hospital Ward of the 16th century. A reconstruction in the WHMM, Wigmore Street, 1913.
  • Angels blow trumpets in heaven and fire descends on a river. Woodcut, 16th century.
  • Two angels blowing trumpets, about to cause disaster at the Apocalypse. Woodcut, c. 16th century.
  • Surgical instruments laid out on a table, for use in cataract and hernia operations during the mid 1500s, with two men in 16th century dress standing behind it. Colour facsimile process print after a 16th century manuscript, 1925.
  • Hospital de Santa Cruz, Toledo, Spain: the ornate 16th century doorway. Photograph by Linares, ca. 1935.
  • Saint Apollonia, Saint Agatha and Saint Lucy. Oil painting by a Spanish (?) painter, 16th (?) century.
  • Saint Apollonia, Saint Agatha and Saint Lucy. Oil painting by a Spanish (?) painter, 16th (?) century.
  • Oil painting: man holding a caduceus. After a lost 16th century painting. In the Johnson coll. Philadelphia.
  • A man, glass in hand, sits at a table with food and drink. Wood-engraving, late 16th century.
  • People and animals entering Noah's ark, transposed into a 16th century Dutch landscape. Engraving by A.J. Landerseel.
  • A drunken street brawl between four young colporteurs and a man, with two accompanying couplets. Etching, 16th century (?).
  • The heavens open on the day of judgement; Christ appears above the coast of the Netherlands. Engraving, 16th century.
  • A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.
  • Hospital de Santa Cruz, Toledo, Spain: the ornate 16th century facade, showing a doorway and windows. Photograph, ca. 1935.
  • A 16th-century journalist is encouraged to make up some scandal. Etching by A. Ashley after G.H. Rodwell.
  • Hospital de Santa Cruz, Toledo, Spain: detail of the ornate 16th century gallery and an inner doorway. Photograph, ca. 1935.
  • A man once designated as Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), anatomist. Oil painting by a follower of a Venetian painter, 16th century.
  • A man formerly designated as Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), anatomist. Oil painting by a follower of a Venetian painter, 16th century.
  • A man formerly designated as Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), anatomist. Oil painting by a follower of a Venetian painter, 16th century.
  • Lightning and stars fall on the earth on the day of Judgement; the sun and the moon hang simultaneously in the sky. Woodcut, 16th century.
  • International Exhibition, Barcelona, 1929: a man wearing 16th century (?) costume; coats of arms of Spanish kingdoms arpund his collar. Colour lithograph by Rojas, 1929.
  • Queen Mary I touching the neck of a boy for the King's evil (scrofula). Watercolour by M.S. Lapthorn, 1911, after a watercolour, 16th. century.
  • A professor teaching pharmacy to students in mid-16th century Paris; representing a calendar advertising products of the Pharmacie Centrale de France. Colour lithograph, after 1889.
  • A pastoral scene showing the picking, treading and transporting of grapes in an ox-cart; representing autumn. Engraving by R. S., 16th century, after F.G. Bassano.
  • Supporters of W.E. Gladstone, wearing 16th century armour, are being led to the Tower of London for imprisonment. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 9 April 1887.
  • A c. 16th century qit'a Nasat'liq. A piece or selection or fragment of poetry or prose mounted and given as gifts or used as wall decorations.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • A c. 16th century qit'a Nasat'liq. A piece or selection or fragment of poetry or prose mounted and given as gifts or used as wall decorations. This is a fragment of a chronicle. Anonymous.