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  • 15th century Chinese scholar-physician, Japanese woodcut
  • A scholar's study. Etching by C.W. Sherborn, 1890.
  • A Chinese scholar with a heron. Coloured woodcut by a Chinese artist.
  • A mullah (Muslim scholar) reading a book. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A scholar in his study. Engraving by N.J. Voyez after G. Dou.
  • A scholar in his study. Engraving by N.J. Voyez after G. Dou.
  • The scholar, Periander in his library with printed text. Reproduction after a woodcut, 1488-89.
  • A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
  • A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
  • A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
  • A man with a herbal and a jar of theriac: an apothecary or pharmaceutical scholar. Oil painting.
  • A depressed scholar surrounded by mythological figures; representing the melancholy temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • A depressed scholar surrounded by mythological figures; representing the melancholy temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
  • A scholar sits in his study reading by a globe, a woman peeps from behind a screen. Etching.
  • A scholar pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Gresham College, London: view into the court with a lady and a scholar standing in the cloister. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: a scholar in his study, plotting points on a globe. Engraving by L. Garreau after J. Vermeer.
  • A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A scholar sits in his study reading beside a globe. Line engraving by V. Denon, 1784, after G. Metsu (?).
  • Astronomy: an ancient scholar (Aristotle?) observing a meteor or comet using a telescope. Engraving by J. Kip, 1694, after G. Freman.
  • A scholar in a surgeon's workroom with a jar of spirits containing Saint Michael defeating a dragon with a barbued tonge; representing the scholar's knowledge of chemistry enabling surgeons to heal, by setting the beneficent force of alkalis against the noxious force of acids. Etching by P.P. Bouche, ca. 1686.
  • A scholar sits in his study reading by a globe. Line engraving by G. Longhi after J. Swebach-Desfontaines after S. Koninck.
  • A scholar and/or physician carrying a cane peering at an Egyptian mummy through a pair of eyeglasses. Gouache drawing by Thomas Rowlandson.
  • A physician holds up a urine flask to the light, while another scholar reads the properties of urine from a book. Woodcut, 1531.
  • A Chinese lucky charm decoration of of a scholar with scrolls and with children at his feet. Colour woodcut by a Chinese artist.
  • An ornate stone frame in which four atlantes support an entablature on which a scholar and Hercules support the globe of the earth. Engraving, 1569.
  • Measurement: a scholar making observations of a pendulum, with two servants, one writing at a table. Engraving by J. Basire, 1822, after J. Goldingham, 1821.
  • Fishmongers' Hall, Thames Street, London: the entrance to the hall, with elaborate allegorical carving above the doors, two fashionable ladies, a scholar and a coal-heaver in the street. Engraving by J. Greig after T. H. Shepherd, 1830.
  • Scholars pass a church, Oxford. Tinted lithograph.