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  • Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem: interior. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem: interior. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem: interior. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem: interior. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Shrine of the Nativity, Bethlehem. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe after D. Roberts, 1843.
  • Bethlehem: a monk praying in the chapel of the Nativity. Chromolithograph by H. Clerget and J. Gaildrau after F.E. Pâris, 1862.
  • Singapore: a western hunter and native Malays with a background view of the Roman Catholic Mission Church at Bukit Timah. Photograph by J. Taylor, 1880.
  • Ornithogalum umbellatum L. Hyacinthaceae Star of Bethlehem, Grass lily. Distribution: Central Europe, SW Asia, NW Africa. All parts are poisonous, especially the bulbs. The toxin is a cardiac glycoside with effects similar to digoxin, vomiting, cardiac irregularities and death in humans and livestock. Only used for decoration by Native Americans (it is a non-native plant that has escaped into the wild from cultivation) and called Sleepydick (Moerman, 1998). One of its toxins is Convallotoxin, also present in Lily of the Valley, Convallaria majalis. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Nativity, by Gaddi, showing swadding and bathing, 14thC
  • The nativity of Christ. Chromolithograph by W. Greve after Fattorini after B. Betti, il Pintoricchio.
  • The adoration of the shepherds at the birth of Christ. Engraving by J. Witdoek after P.P. Rubens.
  • The adoration of the shepherds at the birth of Christ. Engraving by J. Witdoek after P.P. Rubens.
  • A Zoroastrian baptism in Persia. Etching after B. Picart.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
  • H.S.Wellcome, The Story of Metlakahtla
  • The Chinese town, West Point, Hong Kong. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
  • Tianjin (Tientsin), China: exterior of Notre Dame des Victoires Cathedral. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Tianjin (Tientsin), China: exterior of Notre Dame des Victoires Cathedral. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1981.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1979.
  • A homeless family pulling a covered wagon up a steep mountain side in Tyrol; on the path they pass two priests in cassocks, carrying crosses. Wood engraving, 1879, after M. Schmid.