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  • Tibetan Manuscript 118: Mthar rgyas 'dzin bla med...
  • Japanese funeral customs: the cremation is carried out under a wooden awning. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Japanese funeral customs: the coffin, enclosed in a palanquin lies in the temple. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A black woman nurses an emaciated child beneath a cross; surrounded by text relating to Christ's crucifixion with a map of Africa in the background; representing the suffering experienced by AIDS/HIV victims; advertisement by CAFOD. Colour lithograph.
  • The Vestal virgin Tuccia being inspected while carrying water in a sieve to prove her chastity. Etching by P.W. Tomkins,1798, after Sir J. Reynolds.
  • Japanese funeral customs: in the house of the dead man, relatives share a meal with a Buddhist monk. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Fakirs Sandals
  • Fakirs Sandals
  • Fakirs Sandals
  • Fakirs Sandals
  • An alchemist peacefully writing in a room strewn with papers. Engraving by V.A.L. Texier after F. Giani after T. Wyck.
  • The hierarchie of the blessed angells. Their names, orders and offices / The fall of Lucifer with his angells. Written by Tho. Heywood.
  • Desiderius Erasmus. Drawing, c. 1792, after H. Holbein.
  • Desiderius Erasmus. Drawing, c. 1792, after H. Holbein.
  • The Buddha Aksobhya surrounded by six hundred and ten replicas of himself. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Japanese funeral customs: two attendants wearing loin-cloths support the body of a dead man while a third shaves his head. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Amitāyus surrounded by forms of himself. Distemper on linen by a Tibetan painter.
  • Amitāyus surrounded by forms of himself. Distemper on linen by a Tibetan painter.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • The Medicine Buddha, Bhaiṣajyaguru, with other divinities. Woodcut.
  • The Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara surrounded by other Buddhist deities. Distemper painting.
  • Japanese funeral customs: a Buddhist monk kneels before a coffin; mourners kneel behind him. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Two drawings: the easiest method how to practice pranayam by
  • The former Monmouth Street in London: women and children playing and men sitting and standing while smoking pipes, with items for sale hanging outside shops. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • Ming Chinese prescription book, first page
  • Japanese funeral customs: two attendants wearing loin-cloths place the body of a dead man in a round wooden vessel while a third prepares to open a large box to receive the body. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Bhaisajyaguru (the Medicine Buddha) and Padmasambhava (below, centre). Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.