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  • A red condom among red roses with German text: "With my hands I will support you, on red roses I will bed you. Condoms protect."; an advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS-Hilfe Aachen e.V. and AIDS counseling Aachen. Colour lithograph.
  • A red condom among red roses with German text: "With my hands I will support you, on red roses I will bed you. Condoms protect."; an advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS counseling Kiel and AIDS-Hilfe Kiel e.V. Colour lithograph.
  • A sculpture of the Virgin with Child surrounded by a garland of roses. Engraving by Berlauts after Francais.
  • Roses blocked out in different colours representing an advertisement for a benefit event in aid of World AIDS Day on 30 November 1994 at the Frankfurter Hof, Mainz. Colour lithograph by Potter.
  • A young woman holding roses sits lovingly next to a young man playing the violin. Coloured photographic postcard, 192-.
  • A young woman holding roses sits lovingly next to a young man playing the violin. Coloured photographic postcard, 192-.
  • AIDS - plague from God : "I shall not allow a cure" ... message of Our Lady and Our Lord to Veronica Lueken / Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers Shrine.
  • AIDS - plague from God : "I shall not allow a cure" ... message of Our Lady and Our Lord to Veronica Lueken / Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers Shrine.
  • Two wild roses (Rosa hibernica and Rosa involuta): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph by W. G. Smith, c. 1863, after himself.
  • Two sprigs of flowers including roses and Narcissi, meant as designs for embroidery. Etching with engraving after W. Kilburn, 1775.
  • Pilgrims with roses worship a snake shrine while a Brahmin priest and attendants pray during a snake festival. Gouache drawing.
  • The faces of two men behind red roses, advertising the film "Taxi zum Klo". Colour lithograph for [Berliner?] AIDS-Hilfe.
  • Pilgrims with roses worship a snake shrine while a Brahmin priest and attendants pray during a snake festival. Gouache drawing.
  • A horse surrounded by three roses, a marigold, a daffodil and a butterfly. Engraving by P. Williamson, 1663, after W. Hollar.
  • An Indian woman poses in front of a table on which is placed a vase of roses. Chromolithograph by an Indian artist,18--.
  • King Henry VII, holding a sceptre and an orb; below, Elizabeth of York and two putti holding roses. Engraving by J. Hulett, ca. 1750.
  • Rosa gallica L. Rosaceae Distribution: S & C Europe, Western Asia. Culpeper: “Red roses cool, bind, strengthen both vital and animal virtue, restores such as are in consumptions, strengthen. Notes: Rose water and distilled oil of roses have been used in herbal medicine for over a thousand years, and are still used in aromatherapy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • The name 'Aretha Franklin: Duets' within a black oval against a background of roses; advertising an AIDS benefit concert. Colour lithograph by Milton Glaser, 1993.
  • Hercules between Venus and Minerva, with Time and Cupid looking on ; a girl proffering roses on the left. Stipple engraving after G. de Crayer.
  • The triumph of love: Cupid and a young woman being drawn in a chariot by two women while a third scatters roses before them. Watercolour by J.G. Steiner, 1789.
  • A gun shooting a condom amidst an explosion made of a star bearing white roses and the letters 'safe sex guerilla'; advertisement for safe sex to protect against AIDS by the Safe Sex Guerrilla's. Lithograph.
  • The world turned upside down: oxen drive men, women serenade men and give them roses, a horse sits in a carriage drawn by men, a horse rides on the back of a man, the sheep chases the lion, everything is reversed. Coloured etching.
  • Rose petal
  • Rose (Rosa sp.)
  • Rust on rose leaf
  • Pelargonium species (Rose geranium)
  • Rosa Canina (Dog Rose)
  • Virbunum Opulus (Guelder Rose)
  • Four British wild flowers, including the burnet rose (Rosa spinosissima), eglantine rose (Rosa eglanteria) and dog rose (Rosa canina). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
  • Papaver rhoeas L. Papaveraceae Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy. Distribution: Temperate Old World. Dioscorides (Gunther, 1959) recommended five or six seed heads in wine to get a good night's sleep the leaves and seeds applied as a poultice to heal inflammation, and the decoction sprinkled on was soporiferous. Culpeper (1650) ' ... Syrup of Red, or Erratick Poppies: by many called Corn-Roses. ... Some are of the opinion that these Poppies are the coldest of all other - believe them that list [wishes to]: I know no danger in this syrup, so it be taken in moderation and bread immoderately taken hurts