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  • 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.
  • Men are working on the side of a wooden boat; anchors, a buoy and anchoring rope are lying around. Aquatint with etching by W.H. Pyne after himself.
  • A woman carrying two earthenware pots to transport water and a rope and a black pot to draw water from the well. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A Protestant from Thorn is fastened to a stake by a ring around his waist and a rope around his neck and publicly flogged with rods. Etching with engraving.
  • Peace: a family rests and plays on the turret of a building, the bell rope is broken and they can enjoy peace. Engraving by P. Lightfoot after James Drummond.
  • Use of a rope system (zip wire) to transport people and goods across the river Tons in the Himalayas. Engraving by H. Jorden after W. Purser after G.F. White.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, weeps blood while praying for the departure of plague from Milan in 1576. Engraving by G. Edelinck after Charles Le Brun.
  • Moll Hackabout, dressed in fine clothes, is beating hemp, used for making rope, with a mallet, in a prison with other inmates who are mostly prostitutes. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.
  • A family picking fleas from each other's heads; to the left a small child is harnessed by a rope to the wall. Lithograph, 1820, by C. Hullmandel after B. Pinelli.
  • A group of men, some with lanterns stand behind a cannon which is loaded and has one end of a very long wound rope attached to the cannon ball. Wood engraving.
  • A group of men embroiled in a fight in the street while two men are tied up with rope and suspended from a beam across the street. Etching by A. Ashley.
  • A man is holding his hat in his hand and hides a rope behind his back while he approaches two horses on a field. Etching by G. Greux after P. Potter.
  • A ragged looking man is standing in a prison courtyard with a piece of rope in his hand; representing scorn of material wealth by a man who has none. Coloured lithograph.
  • Children are playing a game with one child curled up on the floor with a rope around his neck and the others running past hitting him with their hats. Stipple engraving.
  • Saint Carlo Borromeo: with a rope around his neck, he kneels before the Cross in the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Coloured aquatint by L.A. Garneray, 1820, after Martinet.
  • A Chinese man lying on the ground, with a man seated on his back and another holding the rope that binds his feet, is being whipped. Coloured etching by W. Milton, 1813.
  • A Chinese man is hanging up from a rope attached to a wooden structure and resting on a bamboo stick held by two Chinese men. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • A torture chamber of the Spanish Inquisition with suspected heretics having their feet burned or being suspended with a rope from a pulley while scribes note down confessions. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • A woman in childbirth aided by two female attendants; one attendant stands on the birthing woman's chest whilst holding a rope suspended above her head. Photograph, ca. 1930, of a Burmese painting, ca?.
  • Dressed in fine clothes Moll Hackabout beats hemp with a mallet, which will be used to make rope; she is in prison with other inmates who are mostly prostitutes. Engraving after William Hogarth.
  • An American soldier tied up with a rope forming the letters "VD" and therefore unable to return from army duty in Europe to his home in America. Colour lithograph by F.O. Schiffers, 1946.
  • One man turns a large wheel as the other holds the rope at a distance over a series of supports, two men collect wood to light the fire for the charcoal kiln. Etching and aquatint.
  • A man holds onto a rope as he climbs the face of a rock representing a warning about taking risks with your life; advertisement for the Mi'k Maq, Task Force on AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • A family picking fleas off each other's heads; to the left a baby is harnessed by a rope to the wall, to the right a boy picks fleas off a dog. Etching by B. Pinelli.
  • A black man in vest and shorts with a skipping rope over one shoulder holding a towel; an advertisement about the risk of AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1991.
  • A Chinese man with his hands bound in a wooden grid, kneeling on the ground, is tortured by two men holding a long stick and a man with a rope. Coloured stipple print by J. Dadley, 1801.
  • Above, a cat in a priest's habit is hung on the gallows with priests laughing at the sight; below, a blindfolded man is hung and the rope breaks to release him to the ground. Etching by G. Terry.
  • A girl picking fleas from a woman's head who in turn picks fleas from a boy's head resting on her knee; to the right a small child is harnessed by a rope to the wall. Etching by Pina(?), 1816.