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  • A soldier picks up the handkerchief which a young lady has dropped and hands it back to her. Process print after A. Ashley.
  • Two children are comforting their mother as she sits in a chair where her handkerchief has fallen onto her lap. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A soldier picks up the handkerchief which a young lady has dropped and hands it back to her. Process print after A. Ashley.
  • A silk handkerchief printed with a description of an erotic encounter with the words in the form of breasts. Mixed media, 1802, after E. Parny.
  • Süleyman II, seated at table on the left, is asked by Roxalana to give her his handkerchief; he does so, but she immediately gives it to Delia. Engraving.
  • A man and a woman applying a handkerchief to a television set showing a sneezing man, to prevent the spread of coughs and colds. Colour lithograph after Allan Carter.
  • A clothed woman walking and bending to her right side to pick up a handkerchief she has dropped, holding a parasol in her left hand. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • In the museum of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Coloured aquatint after William Hogarth.
  • In the cabinet of the quack doctor, the viscount Squanderfield holds out a small pill-box as a girl dabs her face with a handkerchief. Engraving by B. Baron after W. Hogarth, 1745.
  • A clothed woman sitting in a wooden chair holds an open fan in her right hand, stands, bends to pick up a handkerchief from the ground and begins to straighten up again. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man with toothache sits in his nightgown, with a handkerchief around his face, in a surgery [?], and is discovered by "Botsam" in fright to be turning into a devil. Wood engraving by F. Wentworth after H.K. Browne.
  • Fargesia rufa T.P.Yi Poaceae. Farges bamboo. Distribution: China. Named, in 1985, after Paul Guillaume Farges (1844-1912), a French missionary and plant collector, who went in 1867 with the Missions Étrangères to north-east Szechuan. He botanised extensively and amassed 4,000 herbarium specimens which he sent back o France. He discovered and sent back seeds of the handkerchief tree, Davidia involucrata, one of which germinated after 18 months. Eighty plants have been named after him. (Cox, 1945
  • A woman coughing in a lift full of people. Colour lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • A woman coughing in a railway carriage. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • A man in a canteen queue, coughing or sneezing over food to the disapproval of those around him. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • A woman coughing in a railway carriage. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • Three stages in a man's sneeze, linked to the three phases of traffic lights. Colour lithograph.
  • A man coughing in a cinema. Lithograph after H.M. Bateman.
  • Three stages in a man's sneezing, represented by the three phases of traffic lights. Colour lithograph.
  • An episode in Tristram Shandy: Uncle Toby looks into Widow Wadman's eye, as she holds it open for him. Line engraving by L. Stocks(?) after C.R. Leslie, 1831.
  • Women enter a large haberdashery shop, some gather outside. Engraving.
  • A father reading a novel with an affecting plot to his wife and daughters. Drawing, ca. 1810 (?).
  • A man holding Easter eggs and flowers. Coloured photographic postcard, 192-.
  • A man holding Easter eggs and flowers. Coloured photographic postcard, 192-.
  • The death of Saint Benedict. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after D.M. Canuti.
  • A man holding an Easter egg and flowers. Coloured photographic postcard, 192- (?).
  • A man holding an Easter egg and flowers. Coloured photographic postcard, 192- (?).
  • A Ukrainian prisoner of war performing a dance at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 191-.
  • A Ukrainian prisoner of war performing a dance at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 191-.
  • A funeral procession of elderly women with cats in their arms, following the coffin of a dead cat, in a churchyard. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Pettit after E.G. Byron, 1789.