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  • 'Dr. Dooreslaer' appearing with mythological figures and scenes of feasting and execution. Line engraving, c. 1650.
  • A vision of the first Mayor of London appears to the feasting Aldermen and warns them against luxury. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • The sense of taste: diners around a feasting table containing a swan and a human skeleton, above, scenes of communion and Abraham and the three angels. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • The sense of taste: diners around a feasting table containing a swan and a human skeleton, above, scenes of communion and Abraham and the three angels. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • The English house-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth and dying; the knowledge of dayries, office of malting; of oates, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a household / A work generally approved, and now the fourth time much augmented. Purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this kingdome. By G.M.
  • The English house-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth and dying; the knowledge of dayries, office of malting; of oates, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a household / A work generally approved, and now the fourth time much augmented. Purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this kingdome. By G.M.
  • A meeting of a Calves-Head Club for Whig gentlemen who celebrate the execution of King Charles I. Engraving, 1734.
  • Sancho Panza (the squire of Don Quixote) , at a banquet, being starved for health reasons by his physician. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth after M. de Cervantes Saavedra.
  • An man in classical costume (Lord Strawberry), standing outside a prison, is pointing his pistol at the man kneeling at his feet amidst two corpses. Aquatint, 1811.
  • A young woman rushes to the aid of a woman (Lady Strawberry) fainting into the arms of servants after taking poison, with her distressed husband (Lord Strawberry) standing nearby. Aquatint.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts : By His Excellency Nathaniel P. Banks, governor: a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise ... Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of November next ... Given at the council chamber, in Boston, this twenty-seventh day of October ... one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight ... / Nathaniel P. Banks, Governor, with the advice of the council ; Oliver Warner, Secretary.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts : By His Excellency John A. Andrew, governor: a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise ... Thursday, the 27th day of November next ... Given at the Council chamber, in Boston, this twenty-seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two ... / By His Excellency the governor, with advice of the Council John A. Andrew, Oliver Warner, secretary.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts : By His Excellency, Henry J. Gardner, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise ... Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of November next ... Given at the Council chamber, in Boston, this twenty-third day of October ... one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five ... / Henry J. Gardner, governor, with the advice of the Council ; Ephraim M. Wright, secretary.
  • Carnival at Cuzco: a small Indian woman with a clyster pulls at a sheet worn by a man, who is holding an uprooted tree; representing malaria. Wood engraving by T. Hildebrand after E. Riou, 1869.
  • Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist. Engraving after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Jesus calls the fishermen to be his apostles; in the background he performs the miracle at Cana. Woodcut.
  • Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist. Engraving.
  • The prodigal son returns home by boat to a large party. Etching by J. Wachsmuth after C.J. Vernet and J.C. Tardieu.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by His Excellency John Brooks, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a proclamation, for a day of public thanksgiving and prayer : ... Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of November next ... Given at the Council chamber, in Boston, this eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen ... / John Brooks, Alden Bradford, Secretary.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by his excellency, John Davis, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise : ... Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of November next ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, this first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one ... / John Davis, John P. Bigelow, Secretary of the State.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by his excellency, John Davis, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise : ... Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of November next ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, this first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one ... / John Davis, John P. Bigelow, Secretary of the State.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by His Excellency George S. Boutwell, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise : ... Thursday, the 27th day of November next ... Given at the Council chamber, in Boston, this fourth day of October ... one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one ... / George S. Boutwell, Amasa Walker, Secretary.
  • A patient poking out his tongue and having his pulse taken by a physician. Watercolour by M. Anderson.
  • Drunken and diseased people attending the wedding of William Huntington and the rich widow Sanderson; behind Huntington is a devil handing breeches to a hack journalist. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.
  • Armenian MS 12 (74773), folio 169 recto
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by His Excellency Edward Everett, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and prayer : ... Thursday, the thirtieth day of November... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, this second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven ... / Edward Everett, John P. Bigelow, Secretary of the State.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by His Excellency Edward Everett, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise : ... Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of November next ... Given at the Council chamber, in Boston, this twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine ... / Edward Everett, John P. Bigelow, Secretary of the State.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by His Excellency Edward Everett, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and prayer : ... Thursday, the thirtieth day of November... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, this second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven ... / Edward Everett, John P. Bigelow, Secretary of the State.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by His Excellency Edward Everett, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise : ... Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of November next ... Given at the Council chamber, in Boston, this twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine ... / Edward Everett, John P. Bigelow, Secretary of the State.
  • A group of girls are sitting on the ground under a tree with a basket of cherries. Engraving by T. Brown after Birket Foster.