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  • A woman personifying religion stands leaning on a cross and on top of a skeleton while holding up a bible. Etching by Crispin de Passe.
  • Adam and Eve conceal their nakedness; in the distance they receive clothes from God. Line engraving by J. Haeyler after C. van den Broeck.
  • Surrounded by animals in the Garden of Eden, Eve ascends from Adam's side. Line engraving by J. Haeyler after C. van den Broeck.
  • 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.
  • An aged anatomist selecting his dissection instrument while a young woman tries to warn that his subject is alive. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • An aged anatomist selecting his dissection instrument while a young woman tries to warn that his subject is alive. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • Calliope. Engraving by C. de Passe.
  • A male corpse is wrapped in linen and entombed while a funeral cortège proceeds into a church in the background. Etching with engraving by G. Spilberg after C. de Passe.
  • The members of a rich family are embroiled in a fight, the husband is kicking the wife, who in turn is about to hit him with the keys, the rest of the household, including children and animals, follows suit; representing Discord. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos.
  • An old man (Sardanapalus?) being bathed by young nude women - an attempt at rejuvenation. Process print after C. de la Passe, the elder, 1600, after M. de Vos.
  • A friar giving food to lame people and to a mother and her two children. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • Rivalry between newspapers; caricatured by two men squirting printing ink at one another from either end of a table. Lithograph.
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Line engraving by E. Ficquet after M. Q. de La Tour.