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  • Leander swimming the Hellespont towards Hero's light, with Eros guiding him. Engraving.
  • A steam-powered spinning disc known as the aeolipile, or Hero's engine. Gouache.
  • Leander and Hero; Iole and Hercules; Pan and Syrinx. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • For two kinds of cough, two kinds of treatment Piriex and Ethnine : "The Parting of Hero and Leander".
  • For two kinds of cough, two kinds of treatment Piriex and Ethnine : "The Parting of Hero and Leander".
  • Surgeon Hua T'o operating upon the war hero Juan Kung,
  • Death astride his horse is the hero of the battlefield. Etching.
  • The face of a hero immediately before death. Drawing, c. 1789, after A. Schluter.
  • An actor as a Chinese hero wringing out his sleeve. Colour woodcut by Hokkei.
  • The face of a hero immediately before death. Drawing, c. 1789, after A. Schluter.
  • A hero holding a banner aloft before a western cannon. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoshi, 1875.
  • An actor as a princely hero by moonlight. Colour woodcut by Kuniharu, early 1860s.
  • Actor as the popular hero Shirai Gompachi under an umbrella. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, ca. 1860.
  • An actor as a hero who grapples with two demons. Colour woodcut by Yoshitaki, early 1860s.
  • An actor as a hero who emerges from a well. Colour woodcut by Yoshitaki, early 1860s.
  • An actor as a hero with his gut torn open. Colour woodcut by Kunikazu, early 1860s.
  • In the story of the good & bad bacteria, here's one little hero : Yakult / [Yakult UK Ltd.].
  • In the story of the good & bad bacteria, here's one little hero : Yakult / [Yakult UK Ltd.].
  • Actor Kataoka Nizaemon as the popular hero Umeno Ichirōbei, revealing his tattooed shoulder. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1859.
  • [Postcard sized card inviting nominations for the British Red Cross Society annual Humanitarian Citizen Awards, "Do you know a local hero?"].
  • A Persian hero (Iskandar?) on horseback, shoots an arrow at the simurgh (phoenix). Gouache painting by a Persian artist, ca. 1750(?).
  • An actor as a hero in armour, with an old woman and a boy. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoyo, early 1860s.
  • [Postcard sized card inviting nominations for the British Red Cross Society annual Humanitarian Citizen Awards, "Do you know a local hero?"].
  • A condom hiding the word 'come' representing an advertisment for the Maryland State AIDS hotline by HERO. Colour lithograph by Christopher Hayes, 1991.
  • Actors in conflict in the snow: Ichikawa Kodanji as the hero Asakura Tōgo, has thrown a ruffian assailant. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1861.
  • The dance of death: Death is seen as hero of the Revolution who passes his sword to the people. Woodcut by G.R. Steinbrecher after Alfred Rethel, 1848.
  • The dance of death: Death, seen riding his horse, leaves the city as the hero who equalised those who followed him blindly. Woodcut by Gaber after Alfred Rethel, 1848.
  • Portrait within a round mirror depicting actor Ichikawa Ichizō III as Sankichi, a popular hero with bared arm and shoulder displaying a dragon tattoo. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1859.
  • Li'l Abner (American cartoon hero) telling his girl friend Daisy Mae that he is about to have a chest x-ray for tuberculosis. Colour lithograph after Al Capp, 195-.
  • Schachtafelen der Gesuntheyt. I. Erstlich, durch bewarung der sechs neben natürlichen Ding ... II. Zům anderen, durch erkantnussz Cur und Hynlegung aller Kranckheyten menschlichs Züfalls, eüsserlich und innerlich ... usz Arabisch in Latin und yetzt jüngst in teütsche Sprach verdolmetscht. III. Züm dritten, aller LXXXIIII Tafelen sonderlich Regelbüch angehenckt / ... Newlich uszgangen unnd verteütscht durch D. Michael Hero.