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  • Secular ceremonial headdress, incorporating human skull, Nepalese/Tibetan
  • Secular ceremonial headdress, incorporating human skull, Nepalese/Tibetan
  • Secular ceremonial headdress, incorporating human skull, Nepalese/Tibetan
  • Secular ceremonial headdress, incorporating human skull, Nepalese/Tibetan
  • Secular ceremonial headdress, incorporating human skull, Nepalese/Tibetan
  • Secular ceremonial headdress, incorporating human skull, Nepalese/Tibetan
  • The genius of painting, preferring sacred to secular history, brings to the public the history of Samson, and writes a dedication to E. Colbert. Etching by J. Gillet and F. Verdier after F. Verdier, 1698.
  • Prince Siddhattha is shown travelling to a park in a palanquin drawn by courtiers and soldiers. On his was Prince Siddhattha sees the three signs, an old man, a sick man and a corpse, that lead to his renunciation of secular life.
  • Prince Siddhattha is shown travelling to a park in a palanquin drawn by courtiers and soldiers. On his way Prince Siddhattha, Bodhisatta, sees three signs of the four that would turn him into Buddha, an old man, a sick man and a corpse, and that lead to his renunciation of secular life.
  • Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena: Celestino III grants control of the hospital to the lay brothers. Photograph by Fotografia Lombardi Siena, 18--, of fresco by Domenico di Bartolo, 1441-1442.
  • Battle of Austerlitz: Napoleon visiting wounded soldiers in a church used as a field hospital after the battle. Coloured lithograph.
  • The Buddha with arhats. Gouache painting.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a mission school. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a mission school. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Radha and Krishna. Watercolour drawing.
  • Prince Siddhattha on his way to the park sees the three
  • Crimean War: women nurses tending wounded soldiers as "woman's mission". Coloured lithograph by J.A. Vinter, 1854, after H. Barraud.
  • Cathedral Church of Osnabrück: allegory and calendar. Engraving by J. & J. Klauber, ca. 1764, after J.W. Baumgartner, and letterpress, ca 1799.
  • Cathedral Church of Osnabrück: allegory and calendar. Engraving by J. & J. Klauber, ca. 1764, after J.W. Baumgartner, and letterpress, ca 1799.
  • Christ resurrected on the day of judgement. Etching after M. de Vos.
  • Illustrations and text explaining how AIDS cannot be transmitted from sharing clothes, drinking cups etc.; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Illustrations and text explaining how to live positively with AIDS; including getting medical help when you feel unwell to not getting pregnant; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • (Far left) The ascetic Kaladevala and the king pay
  • A butterfly and its shadow with a warning in English and Chinese about the dangers of having multiple partners and the risk of getting AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • Interior of a pharmacy, with four figures. Oil painting by Jos. van Brée, 1860.
  • Interior of a pharmacy, with four figures. Oil painting by Jos. van Brée, 1860.
  • Interior of a pharmacy, with four figures. Oil painting by Jos. van Brée, 1860.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • Nonsense talked by a cobbler compared to the talk of a parson and a surgeon-apothecary. Coloured etching attributed to C. Williams, ca. 1812.
  • Left, a young woman condemned to be burnt alive by the Spanish Inquisition; right, a young man about to be burnt alive at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.