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  • A scholar sits in his study reading by a globe, a woman peeps from behind a screen. Etching.
  • Thomas Coram, seated at his desk, with a globe on the floor. Engraving by J. Mills after W. Hogarth.
  • Three men in a library, one seated, two others using a large globe and charts. Pen and ink drawing.
  • At the Globe and Duke of Marlborough's Head in Fleet Street, is to be seen a bold Grimace Spaniard...
  • A scholar sits in his study reading beside a globe. Line engraving by V. Denon, 1784, after G. Metsu (?).
  • Geography: a man in his study using dividers to measure a globe, two putti fly up with a [blank] banderole. Etching.
  • Smiling black and white people below a globe showing South Africa, representing successful avoidance and treatment of AIDS through responsible behaviour.
  • [Newspaper cutting (The Globe, 26 August 1887) about the "Death of the Austrian giant" "Winkelmeyer" (Franz Winkelmeier) in Vienna from tuberculosis].
  • An astronomer and astrologer in his study, plotting points on a globe with a pair of dividers. Woodcut by J. Amman, 1568.
  • Democritus laughing and Heraclitus weeping, with a globe between them. Etching by R. Gaywood after J. van Vliet after Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • Democritus laughing and Heraclitus weeping, with a globe between them. Etching by R. Gaywood after J. van Vliet after Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • Wisdom shows Britannia the measurements of the globe; figures representing other continents stand watching. Engraving by W. Swift after W.M. Craig.
  • A scholar sits in his study reading by a globe. Line engraving by G. Longhi after J. Swebach-Desfontaines after S. Koninck.
  • A middle-aged man giving a geometry lesson to young woman, a young man [her suitor?] hides behind a large globe. Coloured lithograph.
  • An astrologer wearing spectacles sits in his study reading by a globe. Line engraving by G.L. Heitel(?) after J.J. Vliet, 1634.
  • A monkey wearing spectacles reads the Times newspaper, with the Examiner under his arm, sitting beside a globe. Etching by T. Landseer, 1827.
  • A philosopher seated at a table covered with large folio volumes and a globe; right, a winding staircase. Etching by L. Surugue, 1753.
  • The world with a purple condom instead of the globe; representing protection against AIDS. Colour lithograph after M. Kolvenbach and G. Meyer, 199-.
  • An astrologer wearing spectacles sits in his study reading by a globe. Line engraving by G.L. Heitel (?) after J.J. Vliet, 1634.
  • An elderly man is teaching a group of boys the geography of the world from a globe. Engraving by W.H. Lizars after himself.
  • A female figure with a castle on her head measures a globe with a compass; representing geometry. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.
  • In a chamber containing stuffed animals, a globe and astrological devices Hudibras, about to draw his sword, startles Sidrophel and Whacum. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • An ornate stone frame in which four atlantes support an entablature on which a scholar and Hercules support the globe of the earth. Engraving, 1569.
  • The philosopher and poet Lucretius pointing up at the revolving globe of Chance in the sky. Engraving by M. Burghers, ca. 1682, after T. Creech.
  • Two horizontal red ribbons surround a globe of the world representing an advertisement for World Aids Day 1st December 1994 by Hounslow Council. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Smiling black and white people below a globe showing South Africa; representing successful avoidance and treatment of AIDS through responsible behaviour. Colour lithograph after Karin Steenkamp, 1995(?).
  • Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles òu l'on rétablit les caractéres de plusieurs animaux dont les révolutions du globe ont détruit les espèces / par M. le Bon. G. Cuvier.
  • In a chamber containing stuffed animals, a globe and astrological devices Hudibras, about to draw his sword, startles Sidrophel and Whacum. Aquatint by C. Rosenberg, 1799, after William Hogarth.
  • A hermit in devotion before the Cross, turning his back on children with instruments of arts and sciences (a lute, a celestial globe, a book, and a paintbrush). Etching.
  • A world globe is surrounded by eight blocks of text in different languages; an advertisement for the National Aids Helpline by the Liverpool Health Promotion Unit. Colour lithograph, 1992.