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  • Condoman says : don't be shame be game : use condoms!.
  • A young woman looking downwards in shame: outline of head. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
  • A young woman looking downwards in shame: outline of head. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
  • It's a crying shame : hurting animals in laboratories won't improve human health / Animal Aid.
  • It's a crying shame : hurting animals in laboratories won't improve human health / Animal Aid.
  • Francis Higgins, "The sham squire", defends himself against imputations. Woodcut, 1866.
  • Francis Higgins, "The sham squire", defends himself against imputations. Woodcut, 1866.
  • Francis Higgins, "The sham squire", defends himself against imputations. Woodcut, 1866.
  • The love of divinity and wisdom and its effects on shameful love and indulgence. Engraving after Pietro da Cortona.
  • A woman with long brown hair buries her face in her purple hands. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A woman with long brown hair buries her face in her purple hands. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • God stands in the centre of Eden; to the left he breathes life into Adam. Engraving by Scotin, c. 1765.
  • A provocative naked young woman lying on a bed, death (a cloaked skeleton) sits at her side, a naked man walks away from the bed with his head bowed, towards a throng of diseased and dying people; representing syphilis. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Adam and Eve are expelled from Eden by a sword-bearing angel. Lithograph by N. Consoni after Raphael.
  • Eve receives the forbidden fruit from a serpent in the shape of a woman; the angel expels Adam and Eve from paradise. Engraving by A. Capellan, 1772, after Michelangelo.
  • Adam and Eve cover their nakedness as God makes his wrath felt in the Garden of Eden. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • An outgrowth with alternating brown branches and purple spikes. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
  • An outgrowth with alternating brown branches and purple spikes. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
  • The dance of death: Death as a cardinal in the Roman Catholic church approaches a prince and encourages him to change his gentle reign to despotism. Drawing by or after E. Ille.
  • A face with downturned mouth, screaming, with raised arms, between tall grey stalks. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • A face with downturned mouth, screaming, with raised arms, between tall grey stalks. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • The fall; expelled from Eden, Adam and Eve raise a family and set to work. Engraving by Scotin, c. 1765.
  • Adam and Eve humbly pray to a stern God. Line engraving.
  • Adam gestures towards a radiant Eve, flesh of his flesh. Etching by J.E. Ridinger after himself, c. 1750.
  • God creates Eve; she tempts Adam. Engraving by Scotin, c. 1765.
  • Condoman, a cartoon figure, holds a packet of condoms on a beach; advertising safe sex among indigenous Australians. Colour lithograph by the Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Australia, and the Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland).
  • A war memorial in the form of a Celtic cross on a stepped base. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1976.
  • A woman with her head bowed and hands stretched forwards in supplication; the Union Jack above. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A woman with her head bowed and hands stretched forwards in supplication; the Union Jack above. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • Tom Rakewell is getting married to a one-eyed elderly hunchback in the church of St. Mary le Bone. Engraving by T. Cooke after W. Hogarth.