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  • Bastard Teak or Flame of the Forest (Butea monosperma (Lam.) Kuntze): leaf cluster, inflorescence and dissected flower. Coloured line engraving.
  • Sri Lankan mask, demon's face, ear-pieces and flame headdress
  • Sri Lankan mask, demon's face, ear-pieces and flame headdress
  • Sri Lankan mask, demon's face, ear-pieces and flame headdress
  • Sri Lankan mask, demon's face, ear-pieces and flame headdress
  • The Illawarra flame tree (Brachychiton acerifolium)... : lace bark (brachychiton discolor)... / designed by Strom Gould.
  • The Illawarra flame tree (Brachychiton acerifolium)... : lace bark (brachychiton discolor)... / designed by Strom Gould.
  • The Illawarra flame tree (Brachychiton acerifolium)... : lace bark (brachychiton discolor)... / designed by Strom Gould.
  • Three men drinking in the light of a flame held by a boy. Aquatint by A. Bissell, c. 1800, after J. Trautmann.
  • A victim of torture is about to have its hand plunged into an open flame while a priest is looking on. Woodcut.
  • Manoah and his wife pray to an angel which emerges from the flame of their altar. Line engraving by L. Desplaces after C. Le Brun.
  • A black and white flame against a red background, with a list of artists' names; advertising the exhibition "Imágenes contra el SIDA". Colour lithograph by Peret, 199-.
  • A Chinese man heats up sections of a metal chain over a flame in order to torture a prisoner. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Fire tests with textiles : flannelette "ordinary", flannelette "fine finish", art muslin, curtain net, scenic canvas, as also tissue paper and wadding; untreated and treated with Snowdon's Flame-Proofing Solution submitted for test by Snowdon & Co., Ltd., London the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].
  • Fire tests with textiles : flannelette "ordinary", flannelette "fine finish", art muslin, curtain net, scenic canvas, as also tissue paper and wadding; untreated and treated with Snowdon's Flame-Proofing Solution submitted for test by Snowdon & Co., Ltd., London the Committee's report / [British Fire Prevention Committee].
  • Lord Ganesh and Skanda (?) sit across a sacrificial fire, with a long flame coming out of a pink pot watched by seventeen other deities. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A man looking through a magnifying glass at a picture of a monkey, whose flatulence extinguishes the flame of a candle; representing the pleasures of the sense of sight. Engraving, 17--.
  • The flame of a candle against a night sky littered with coloured stars; advertisement for the 13th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial and Mobilization on Sunday May 19 1996. Colour lithograph.
  • The Buddhist guardian deity, Fudô Myôô, reading a government propaganda publication, enthusing about Western customs and modernisation: one attendant prepares meat, another warms sake in the sacred flame. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, 1874.
  • A blood red flame bearing a white syringe pointing up towards the word 'AIDS' in blue letters; a drug safety and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Committee on AIDS Hanoi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A dancing form of Lord Shiva with the upper left hand holding a flame, the upper right holding an hourglass drum and the lower two in different mudra positions. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A cross amidst trees and flames
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.
  • Martyrdom of two male saints, bound to the rack with flames beneath. Woodcut.