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  • A doctor taking the pulse of a gouty bachelor surrounded by the consequences of his life style. Mezzotint, ca. 1770.
  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres), a bustling and prosperous market town, is the largest Sherpa settlement in the Khumbu. Many of its Tibetan-style houses devote the ground floor to animal shelters while the family lives upstairs. Most have windows and doors at the front of the building only, the back being built into the side of the mountain. Firewood is stacked against walls, and small terraced fields grow staples (potatoes, barley, wheat). At left is a Buddhist shrine or stupa, on each side of which is painted the eyes of the Buddha. Prayer flags are strung out from its summit.
  • London in the nineteenth century / by Sir Walter Besant.
  • A boy smiling and standing next to a wooden chair. Photograph.
  • Electricity: condenser jars, an electro-static generator, and a vase with flowers. Gouache painting.
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: holding a trident. Gouache drawing by a Bengali artist, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A Hindu ascetic, or holy man: holding a trident. Gouache drawing by a Bengali artist, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Events in Krishna's life. Gouache drawing.
  • Je suis séropositif et j'ai même une sexualité et alors?.
  • Je suis séropositif et j'ai même une sexualité et alors?.
  • Mystical body of tantric meditation, flow of the life force
  • Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.
  • Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.
  • Toggenburg, Marie and Lindenthal. Drawing by C. Sambach, 1780/1797.
  • Toggenburg, Marie and Lindenthal. Drawing by C. Sambach, 1780/1797.
  • MS Indic delta 74.
  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986
  • China: a Manchu man with a servant, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu man with a servant, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Episodes in the life of Prince Dri-med-kun-Idan. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Episodes in the life of Prince Dri-med-kun-Idan. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Episodes in the life of Prince Dri-med-kun-Idan. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Episodes in the life of Prince Dri-med-kun-Idan. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • China: a Manchu bride. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • A skull, a tumbler of beer and a bottle of alcoholic drink; advertising the danger of alcohol as a cause of industrial accidents in Czechoslovakia, and contrasting it with milk. Colour lithograph, 193- (?).
  • China: a Manchu bride. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • China: a Manchu bride. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • A Soviet soldier dies of dysentery as a result of eating unwashed vegetables. Colour lithograph by M.V., 192-, for the Sanitarno-Prosvetitelʹno Otdel Sanchasta Zapfronta.
  • A Soviet soldier dies of dysentery as a result of eating unwashed vegetables. Colour lithograph by M.V., 192-, for the Sanitarno-Prosvetitelʹno Otdel Sanchasta Zapfronta.
  • A lady visiting an alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting attributed to Jan Josef Horemans, 17--.