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  • Saint Gaetano in a church, holding the Bible. Colour lithograph.
  • David Livingstone memorial in Blantyre; Livingstone reading the Bible to a group of African men. Photoprint.
  • A sleeping woman is disturbed in her dreams by a winged figure pointing to five people in the clouds above; representing the interpretation of dreams. Coloured etching, 1811.
  • Seal of Gedaliah, Keller's The Bible as history in pictures
  • Obelisk at Heliopolis, known in the Bible as On, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1848.
  • Episodes in the Bible and examples of devotional practice. Collage of colour lithographs and process prints after Harold Copping and others.
  • Saint Geneviève seated under a Gothic canopy, holding the Bible; a lamb at her side; a church in the background. Coloured engraving, ca. 1800.
  • A young woman in distress at an altar being pressed by a cleric to read a passage of the Bible. Engraving by F. Bacon after Solomon Hart.
  • Saint Geneviève is holding the Bible and a torch which an angel lights with a candle but a devil tries to extinguish with bellows; Notre Dame Cathedral in the background. Engraving.
  • Saint Gaetano kneeling, looking up at the Virgin and Christ seated on a cloud amid cherubs; cherub holding the Bible in the foreground. Engraving by G.B. Cipriani after A.D. Gabbiani, ca. 1760.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
  • An artist dreams that he is painting the portrait of the Devil disguised as a virtuoso: episode in a fable by John Ogilby. Etching attributed to F. Barlow, 1673.
  • The Kalpasutra (the heroic deeds of the conquerors) a Prakrit Manuscript dated 1503. Minature showing the fourteen dreams of Queen trisata, wife of Siddhartha (Buddha), who now carries Mahavira in her womb.
  • Jacob dreams of the heavenly ladder; he consecrates with oil the spot where he slept; he meets Rachel, who is tending sheep in the vicinity of a Mesopotamian city. Woodcut by S.H., 1568, after V. Solis.
  • Tellima grandiflora (Pursh)Lindl. Saxifragaceae Distribution: Western North America from Alaska to California. The Native American Skagit tribe from Washington State, used it to improve appetite. The Nitinaht used it to stop having dreams of sexual intercourse with the dead (Moerman, 1998), Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Plumbago auriculata Blume Plumbaginaceae Plumbago, Leadwort. Distribution: South Africa. It is used traditionally to treat warts, broken bones and wounds. It is taken as a snuff for headaches and as an emetic to dispel bad dreams. A stick of the plant is placed in the thatch of huts to ward off lightning.” Iwou (1993) reports other Plumbago species are used to cause skin blistering, treat leprosy, induce blistering, and to treat piles, parasites and to induce abortions. The genus name derives from the Latin for lead, but authors differ as to whether it was used as a treatment of lead poisoning, or that when it was used for eye conditions the skin turned the colour of lead. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a volcanic landscape by moonlight. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1967.
  • The angel speaks to Joseph in a dream. Engraving by A.A. Morel after J.B. Wicar after A.R. Mengs.
  • "All who are visionaries dream of a City Beautiful, but no man in his right senses would dream of putting a pub in it." / Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, M.P. ; issued by the Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales, Abbey House, Westminster, S.W.1.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a whorl with a black circle at the centre. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1978-.
  • The three kings are ordered in a dream not to return to the land of Herod. Engraving by Jan Sadeler I, 15--, after G. van Groeningen.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a railway tunnel, in which the rails at the far end form the trunk of a tree. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 197-.
  • A man in ancient costume is sitting asleep in a wilderness near a Roman river god who points into the distance; representing the dream of Aeneas. Etching by S. Rosa.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a valley, with a meandering path through trees beyond. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1977.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: a path through trees, on which three cyclists ride. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 197-.
  • The dream of a patient in Jungian analysis: centre, a tree; left, a path; right, a bay. Drawing by M.A.C.T., 1976.