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  • Artistic poses, plate VI: a man, écorché, pulling a rope. Lithograph by Robert J. Colenso.
  • A Swiss mountain guide in profile carrying heavy rope. Photographic postcard by E. Gyger, 193-.
  • A small boy stands with a rope and a chimney brush over his shoulder. Coloured lithograph.
  • An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a length of rope. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • An écorché figure seen from the back, holding a length of rope. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 155-.
  • A woman acrobat holding a long stick and walking the tight rope. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A Chinese man being garroted on a cross with a rope. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A Tibetan demon with a boar's head, pulling a black rope (?). Gouache painting by a Tibetan artist.
  • A seated male nude grasping a rope with a second sketch of legs. Chalk drawing by G. Danson.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: a Brazilian agricultural exhibit: coils of rope and brooms. Photograph, 1904.
  • The cold-water ordeal: a man is tortured by being tied with rope and lowered into cold water. Etching.
  • A rat leaving a ship via the mooring rope, thus spreading the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.
  • A woman holding a tool to grind (?) which is tied to a rope. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • People crossing the river Tons by rope bridge, Himalaya mountains, India. Coloured aquatint by Robert Havell, 1820, after James Baillie Fraser.
  • Mr. Mantle is hung on a gibbet with the rope breaking under his weight while men carrying halberds are looking on. Etching.
  • Men hauling excavated soil up a shaft in a bucket suspended from a rope, driven by a steam hoist. Wood engraving, 1868.
  • Chinese sword-swallower and entertainer swinging a rope with cast metal weights attached to it. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • An écorché pulling down on a rope (?), seen from the back. Line engraving by Kirkwood & Sons, after W. Cowper, 1813.
  • A young woman is being pushed on a rope swing strung between two trees, a companion sits on the ground beneath. Etching, 17--.
  • A cat is caught and strangulated by a rope in a haybarn with a fox looking on. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.
  • A priest (the Catholic church) has tied a young woman (Ireland) with a rope and is admonishing her. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, July 1891.
  • A man is sitting on a type of rope seat with a brush in one hand and a large bowl in the other. Coloured etching.
  • A girl about to skip using a rope made out of a 17-foot-long beard, belonging to Hans Langseth of North Dakota. Photograph, 192-.
  • God about to create the universe from a large sphere which is suspended on a rope by two genii. Engraving by J. Muller after H. Goltzius.
  • A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching after G. Cruikshank after Captain F. Marryat.
  • A Chinese prisoner with bound hands and feet and head covered is slowly strangled by two executioners with rope. Gouache painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A rider with a feathered hat is performing a dressage act with the aid of a rope dressed around a wooden pole and two men assisting him. Etching.
  • A woman suffering the pain of colic; illustrated by demons tugging on a rope wound around her stomach. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1819, after Captain F. Marryat.
  • An apple that has been bitten into is tied up with a knotted rope to prevent further bites; representing precautions against AIDS. Colour lithograph after R. Vlachová, 1993.
  • An apple that has been bitten into is tied up with a knotted rope to prevent further bites; representing precautions against AIDS. Colour lithograph after R. Vlachová, 1993.