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  • Lourdes, France: the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes: petitions to the Virgin Mary placed in a hollow at the shrine. Photograph, ca. 1937.
  • Saint Wilfred (Wilfrid, Wilfrith) the Younger (of York): he petitions King Cædwalla of Wessex to grant him land, at Selsey, which is granted. Engraving by T. King, 1807.
  • A committee of English Nonconformists of the Commonwealth era receiving petitions from people accused of bestiality (a woman with a dog and a man with a horse); representing the danger that Puritanism might be revived in 1680 and seize power in Great Britain. Engraving after Sir R. Lestrange, 1680.
  • 'The old maids petition'
  • The Miners' Petition from West Bromwich.
  • The House in the Strand from which Manasseh Ben Israel issued his petition to Oliver Cromwell.
  • Textiles: a petition presented on behalf of the descendants of John Kay, for a pension. Coloured lithograph by Nosworthy and Wells after Cardwell, with letterpress, 1846.
  • Textiles: a petition presented on behalf of the descendants of John Kay, for a pension. Coloured lithograph by Nosworthy and Wells after Cardwell, with letterpress, 1846.
  • Terrible tractoration!! A poetical petition against galvanising trumpery, and the Perkinistic Institution. In four cantos : most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians / By Christopher Caustic.
  • A group of mice and rats is presenting a cat on a pedestal with a petition, while the cat is shown chasing mice in the background. Etching by W. Hollar for a fable by Aesop.
  • François Pourfour du Petit [Petit]. Photogravure by I. Schutzenberger after J. Restout, 1737.
  • Louis Pasteur. Lithograph after P. Petit.
  • Louis Pasteur. Photogravure after Pierre Petit.
  • Emile Duclaux. Photograph by Pierre Petit.
  • Alphonse Théophile Schloesing. Photogravure after Pierre Petit.
  • Alfred Armand Louis Marie Velpeau. Photograph by P. Petit.
  • Alfred Armand Louis Marie Velpeau. Photograph by Pierre Petit.
  • Adolphe Pinard. Photograph by Pierre Petit.
  • Armand Gautier. Photograph by Pierre Petit.
  • Etienne Blanchard. Lithograph by A. Feret after P. Petit.
  • Etienne Blanchard. Lithograph by A. Feret after P. Petit.
  • Léon Petit. Etching by E. van Muyden.
  • Philippe Petit-Radel. Mezzotint (?) by Chc(?).
  • Louis Pasteur. Lithograph by C. Schultz after P. Petit.
  • Louis Pasteur. Lithograph by C. Schultz after P. Petit.
  • Actors in formal dress in a courtly setting: the figure of Nakamura IV wears a long, red lion wig; the boy to the left plays a drum; the man to the right holds an offering tray with a petition on it. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1847/1850.
  • Hospital des Petits Maisons, Paris: plans. Engraving.
  • A Chinese high ranking official receives petitioners. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Ernest Firmin Mazeau. Photograph by Pierre Petit.
  • Étienne [Stéphane] Tarnier. Photograph by Pierre Petit.