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  • A Justicia plant: flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • A Justicia plant: flowering stem and root. Watercolour.
  • A Justicia plant: flowering stem and root. Watercolour.
  • Justicia martinicensis Jacq.: flowering stem. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
  • A plant (Justicia bicalyculata Willd.): branch with flowers and fruit and separate flower and opened fruit with seed. Coloured line engraving.
  • Justicia carnea Lindl. Acanthaceae. Brazilian Plume flower, Flamingo flower. Shrimp plant. Tender shrub. Distribution: Atlantic coast of Brazil. Named for James Justice (1698-1753) Scottish horticulturist, lawyer, 'tulip maniac' (Desmond, 1977). Asian species of Justicia are noted to be toxic and contain cytotoxic compounds which inhibit virus replication (Wiart, 2006) Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Justice begins at home : President Obama defends sexual rights... do you? / Positive Justice Project ; IPPF.
  • Justice begins at home : President Obama defends sexual rights... do you? / Positive Justice Project ; IPPF.
  • Christ as man of sorrow between fate and justice. Engraving.
  • Summons issued by Justice of the Peace reg. a rabid dog
  • A woman with a sword and a balance; representing justice. Etching, 16--.
  • Portrait of Thomas Lord Denman, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Kings Bench.
  • Court sitting trying prisoners in the Justice Hall of Old Bailey. Engraving with etching.
  • Personifications of prudence and justice. Etching by S. Mulinari after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • A woman holding a sword and the scales of justice; representing jurisprudence. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • A man kneeling in front of a judge at a Chinese court of justice. Wood engraving after E. Vaumort.
  • A woman bearing a sword and measuring scales; representing justice. Engraving by P. Ghigi after L. Agricola after Raphael.
  • A female figure holding a pair of scales, resting her foot on a footstool; representing justice. Etching, c. 1736.
  • Criminal soldiers are caught in their hiding places in woods and brought to justice. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • French revolutionary bank note of fifty sols, with allegorical figures of liberty and justice. Engraving by N.M. Gatteaux, 179-.
  • The Panama Canal: the French Ministry of Justice opens an enquiry into its financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The fallibility of the senses: above, justice, fame and deceit; below, doctors conducting an autopsy on a cadaver, surrounded by onlookers. Engraving, 1692.
  • Innocence attacked from four corners by "Iudex", "Persequutiō", "Avaritia" and "Invidia"; Justice looks down from above. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • The archangel Michael, holding a flaming sword and the scales of justice; in heaven the angels kneel before Christ; representing the Day of Judgement. Woodcut.
  • A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
  • A solicitor and a barrister throw black paint or tar at a woman sitting at the feet of a statue of Justice. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1892.
  • Sir John Fielding wearing a blindfold sits in a chair holding instruments of justice before Madam Cornelys on the shoulders of a lawyer and the Duchess of Northumberland. Engraving, 1771.
  • The Panama Canal: the French Ministry of Justice discovers that the bank account of the company formed to build the canal is empty. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The three theological virtues (Hope, Faith and Charity) are standing near an altar above which the Holy Spirit is hovering, while the the four cardinal virtues (Temperance, Justice, Fortitude and Wisdom) are sitting in the foreground. Engraving.
  • Tom Idle and Francis Goodchild, once colleagues meet at a session of the court of justice; Idle is a pleading defendant while Goodchild wearing the furred robe and chain of an alderman is the acting magistrate. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth.