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  • A statue of Priapus, the guardian of gardens and god of natural reproduction with the god Pan sitting under a tree and both flanked by angels. Etching.
  • A guardian angel leads a child by the hand. Coloured lithograph by F. Mitjana.
  • A boy with a guardian angel pointing to heaven. Engraving by P. Aquila after C. Maratti.
  • A guardian angel (or Night) carries a sleeping child. Etching by James Basire, 1763, after Domenico Cresti, il Passignano.
  • A believer, called by death, with his guardian angel pointing to heaven, where saints will intercede for him. Etching by An[dreas] Trost.
  • A guardian angel is carrying a child up into the sky to an altar dedicated to a parody of the Virgin. Etching by James Gillray, 1805.
  • Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.
  • Crimean War: a guardian angel appearing to a widow mourning the death of her husband on the battlefield. Coloured aquatint by J. Harris, 1856, after O. Norie and W. Bullock Webster.
  • Two condoms hovering like haloes above the heads of a naked man and woman making love; an AIDS, STD prevention and safe sex advertisement by Landstinget Förebygger AIDS (LAFA). Colour lithograph by Vince Reichardt, ca. 1996.
  • A radiologist conducting a chest x-ray of a young man in order to detect early signs of tuberculosis. Colour lithograph after A. Wilquin, 1949.