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  • Manuscript belonging to one of F. Nightingale's nuns
  • Saints, martyrs, Blessed Virgins and Nuns of the Augustinian order, in the centre, Saint Monica. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
  • Saints, martyrs, Blessed Virgins and Nuns of the Augustinian order, in the centre, Saint Monica. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
  • An eye hospital (?), Trinidad: a ward with two nuns. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).
  • The Hôtel Dieu, Paris: interior showing patients being nursed by monks and nuns. Woodcut.
  • Val-de-Grâce, Paris: nuns walking in the gardens of the convent. Coloured line engraving.
  • Two nuns at prayer. Engraving by G.R. Levillain after Lefort after Philippe de Champaigne.
  • The Virgin and the Christ Child with two nuns. Lithograph by E. Manche after H. Memlinc.
  • Hôpital des Enfants-Trouvés, Paris: nuns and babies in the hospital. Lithograph by J.H. Marlet.
  • Nuns and mourning women lamenting the death of a man laid out in an open coffin. Coloured stipple engraving by A.J. Lallemand after F. Gonin after Cominotti.
  • Val-de-Grâce, Paris: nuns walking in the front of the hospital. Engraving by J. Redaway, 1820, after F. Nash.
  • The Blessed Mafalda, Queen of Castile, enthroned and surrounded by other Cistercian nuns. Engraving by G.F.L. Debrie, 1750.
  • The Blessed Mafalda, Queen of Castile, enthroned and surrounded by other Cistercian nuns. Engraving by G.F.L. Debrie, 1750.
  • Leper asylum, Port of Spain, Trinidad: two nuns (working as nurses) in a hospital ward with empty beds. Photograph, 1890/1910.
  • Boer War: a group of nuns outside the military hospital at Mafeking, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after J. Emerson Neilly.
  • Abelard and Eloise confessing their love to his brother monks and her sister nuns. Coloured stipple engraving by Miss Martin after B. Pernotin.
  • Two nuns in a pharmacy, one holds a sick child on her lap: Sisters of Charity Order. Mezzotint by T. Oldham Barlow, 1862, after H. Browne.
  • Boer War: nuns and a policeman taking down the Red Cross flag from the bomb damaged convent at Mafeking, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after S. Robinson.
  • A building flying a pennent from a tower, surrounded by small houses; above, the appearance of three nuns holding rosaries, one of them carrying a cross. Engraving, 16--.
  • A British ward in the World War I hospital for British and French interned soldiers, at Lucerne, Switzerland: interior view, showing injured soldiers attended by two nuns. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.
  • A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.
  • Nun who accompanied F. Nightingale to the Crimea, 1854
  • A Nun (Sister of Charity) bloodletting a seated patient. Line engraving.
  • A priest administering extreme unction to a dying nun. Colour stipple engraving.
  • A nun holding a medicine spoon with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
  • Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa: operating theatre with nun and nurse. Photograph, c. 1905.
  • A nun holding a medicine spoon with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
  • A nun, smiling, raising her hands and looking upwards. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1973.
  • A nun, smiling, raising her hands and looking upwards. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1973.