Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
3,064 results
  • The forewards-stretched arms of a woman seen from above, with crosses and droplets. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • Left, red crosses and a pair of hands with stigmata; right, a red excrescence. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • Left, a red face in profile with diagonals; right, red crosses and saltires crossed through diagonally. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • Left, red upright strokes and a face in profile; right, red diagonals, saltires and crosses. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • A standing figure in a red aureole surrounded by red crosses; representing virtue, pain and anger. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A standing figure in a red aureole surrounded by red crosses; representing virtue, pain and anger. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • The head of an angry red cat (?), with mauve Y-shapes and red crosses; representing pain. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • The head of an angry red cat (?), with mauve Y-shapes and red crosses; representing pain. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • Left, seven rows of crosses, saltires, gates and spirals; right, eight rows of spirals and diagonals. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • Left, eleven rows of red diagonals and saltires, crossed through; right, ten rows of red saltires and crosses. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • A manual for the study of the sepulchral slabs and crosses of the Middle Ages / By the Rev. Edward L. Cutts, B. A.
  • A manual for the study of the sepulchral slabs and crosses of the Middle Ages / By the Rev. Edward L. Cutts, B. A.
  • A manual for the study of the sepulchral slabs and crosses of the Middle Ages / By the Rev. Edward L. Cutts, B. A.
  • Left, Christ carrying the Cross, standing on a pile of crosses; right, people with crutches seek his help, within a setting of colonnades. Engraving by G.B. Cavalieri, 1568.
  • Left, Christ carrying the Cross, standing on a pile of crosses; right, people with crutches seek his help, within a setting of colonnades. Engraving by G.B. Cavalieri, 1568.
  • A large crowd surrounds a platform on which victims are tortured by means of racks and crosses. Engraving with etching by A. Walker.
  • A clothed woman places a chair on the ground, sits on it, crosses her legs and fans herself. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A girl in a red aureole surrounded by red crosses; representing fear of the Iron Maiden of Nuremberg. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A believer who carries many crosses, expresses his devotion for the Eucharist, before a little door in the Sacred Heart of Christ. Etching.
  • Left, ten rows of red and purple gates, crosses and saltires; right, ten rows of red diagonals. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • A girl in a red aureole surrounded by red crosses; representing fear of the Iron Maiden of Nuremberg. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • Left, eleven rows of red crosses, saltires and diagonals; right, red and purple uprights, darts, diagonals and dashes. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • Bought of George Walker : florist, fruiterer & greengrocer : button holes, dress sprays, wreaths and crosses : families waited upon daily for orders.
  • Left, red and purple diagonals, blotches, saltires, crosses and gates, crossed through vertically in red; right, red diagonals crossed though diagonally. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • Left, an anguished face with crosses, hooks and diagonals; right, the hands of a drowning person, with verticals and diagonals. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1977.
  • Left, ten rows of purple hooks, diagonals and whorls; right, twelve rows of red saltires, crosses, circles, dots and dashes. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • A man on a horse causing havoc among a group of people wearing cassocks, carrying crosses and rosaries. Etching by J. Barlow, 1791, after S. Collings.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: a large-chested nurse in a "hush" gesture, surrounded by red crosses. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Left, ten rows of purple and red crosses, saltires, dashes and diagonals; right, nine rows of purple diagonals in V-formations. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • A telephone wire crosses the page diagonally with information about the AIDS Hotline; advertisement by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Tony Agpoon and Debra Heiser.