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  • Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome: skulls and skeletons of the friars arranged in arches and columns around the walls of the Convento dei Cappuccini. Photograph.
  • Two men are standing on a stone plinth with their feet on a sheet with ships on it, and columns are crumbling around them. Etching.
  • John Williams, a bookseller stands in the pillory in the Palace Yard, Westminster, surrounded by a cheering crowd. Engraving with ten verses in five columns below, 1765.
  • A seated woman personifying history and a man representing time gesturing towards the socle of a pair of columns decorated with portrait ovals; above, Fame holds her trumpet. Engraving by C. Duflos le père, 1725, after J. Desmarets.
  • Vertebral column of Reticulated Python
  • Spinal column of a Horse
  • Trajan's column; a miniature reproduction in bronze.
  • Ancient Graeco-Italian ceramic; Attic column krater
  • Ancient Graeco-Italian ceramic; Attic column krater
  • Vertebral column and ribcage. Watercolour by A. Mongrédien, ca. 1880.
  • Vertebral column and ribcage. Watercolour by J. Mongrédien, ca. 1880.
  • Spinal column, femur, joints, and nerves. Engraving, 18th century.
  • Luxation table for correction of vertebral column. Manufactured by Mathieu.
  • The Hippodrome, Istanbul, Turkey: the obelisk of Theodosius (right) , the Serpent Column (centre), and the column of Constantine Porphyrgenitus (left). Photograph by Guillaume Berggren, ca. 1880.
  • Acanthus spinosus L. Acanthaceae. Bears breeches. Distribution: Southern Europe to Western Turkey. Herbaceous perennial flowering plant. Named for spiny leaves. Dioscorides recommended the roots applied for inflammation and spasms, and -when drunk- to promote urine, check diarrhoea, and for phthysis, ruptures and convulsions. The leaves are the model for those at the top of Corinthian columns. Tetraglycosides isolated from the plant show cytotoxicity in sea urchin eggs and crown gall tumour on potato disks. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Viola Hamilton, posing in a classical attitude against a square column.
  • Fairbairn's six H.P high pressure column engine / W. J. Lindsey.
  • Cranium and vertebral column: two cross-sections. Lithograph by N.H Jacob, 1831/1854(?).
  • An Ionic column with capitals at both ends. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • An Ionic column with capitals at both ends. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • Christ, tied to a column, being whipped by two men. Engraving after A. Durer, 1512.
  • Hercules, seated on a column, in a state of depression. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1781.
  • Christ at the Column, the Santissimo Cristo de Torrijos. Engraving by J.M. Martin, 1847.
  • A censer supported by a column, held by female figures. Engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael.
  • Muscles and bones of the vertebral column. Engraving by C. Grignion after B.S. Albinus, 1748.
  • Muscles and bones of the vertebral column. Engraving by C. Grignion after B.S. Albinus, 1748.
  • Extend the lifetime of your Waters steel cartridge column and increase its efficiency : Sentry / Waters Corporation.
  • Extend the lifetime of your Waters steel cartridge column and increase its efficiency : Sentry / Waters Corporation.
  • Extend the lifetime of your Waters steel cartridge column and increase its efficiency : Sentry / Waters Corporation.
  • Extend the lifetime of your Waters steel cartridge column and increase its efficiency : Sentry / Waters Corporation.