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  • World War I: a soldier writing a letter home. Colour process print, ca. 1916.
  • World War I: a soldier writing a letter home. Colour process print, ca. 1916.
  • Sakuntalā writing a letter on a leaf in a daydream with two others. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • Sakuntalā writing a letter on a leaf in a daydream with two others. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • An Egyptian man sits beside his hooka writing a letter, he is watched by his client, a woman. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1849, after D. Roberts.
  • A man sits at a table under a large umbrella with people watching him as he writes a letter. Wood engraving.
  • Constantinople: a man sits to write a letter as two women watch over his shoulder. Coloured lithograph by J. Nash after D. Wilkie, 1840.
  • Dear Friends : I am writing to let you know the latest news on the "IX International Conference on AIDS" and "IV World Congress of STD", according to the guidelines established at the end of November, at the last meeting of the International Steering Committee ... / Mabel Bianco, Focal Person of the AIDS Women's Caucus.
  • A letter-copying machine: plan (top) and three-quarter view (below). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1813.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients taking afternoon tea, and a nurse waiting to collect a letter from a slow writer. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Three women in a post office, curious about a local resident, surreptitiously read a sealed letter addressed to him. Engraving by F. Bacon after H. Richter.
  • A public letter-writer in Naples sits at a desk shaded by an umbrella. Coloured lithograph by G. Lenghi.
  • Regd. offices of Century Thermal Bath Cabinet Ltd., 203-205, Regent Street, London, W. / A.R. Pointing, managing director.
  • A day in the life of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, in London, 1814. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
  • A day in the life of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, in London, 1814. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
  • Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man. Engraving after M. Buchinger, 1724.
  • A philosopher with a celestial globe. Oil painting, ca. 162-.
  • A philosopher with a celestial globe. Oil painting, ca. 162-.
  • A philosopher with a celestial globe. Oil painting, ca. 162-.
  • A philosopher with a celestial globe. Oil painting, ca. 162-.
  • A philosopher with a celestial globe. Oil painting, ca. 162-.
  • The dance of death: Death finds an author writing his life. Colour lithograph by Edward Hull, 18--.
  • The dance of death: Death finds an author writing his life. Colour lithograph by Edward Hull, 18--.
  • Saint Mark, beginning the writing of his gospel. Engraving after P. de Jode the elder.
  • A letter of good wishes. Woodcut, ca. 1815.
  • A physician taking the pulse of a young woman, while an old maid prepares gruel for her. Oil painting by Quirin Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam.
  • Dissertations relative to the natural history of animals and vegetables / Translated from the Italian of the Abbé Spallanzani.
  • The distressed poet. An angry milkmaid is collecting money from the poet's abode. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • A Chinese walled city: plan. Painting by a Chinese artist.
  • 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.