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  • Light emitted by Röntgen Ray Tubes: letters and shapes. Photoprint from radiograph, by James Wimshurst, 1898.
  • Light emitted by Röntgen Ray Tubes: letters and shapes. Photoprint from radiograph, by James Wimshurst, 1898.
  • Light emitted by Röntgen Ray Tubes: letters and shapes. Photoprint from radiograph, by James Wimshurst, 1898.
  • Light emitted by Röntgen Ray Tubes: letters and shapes. Photoprint from radiograph, by James Wimshurst, 1898.
  • Light emitted by Röntgen Ray Tubes: letters and shapes. Photoprint from radiograph, by James Wimshurst, 1898.
  • Light emitted by Röntgen Ray Tubes: blurred letters and shapes. Photoprint from radiograph, by James Wimshurst, 1898.
  • Light emitted by Röntgen Ray Tubes: blurred letters and shapes. Photoprint from radiograph, by James Wimshurst, 1898.
  • Surgical instruments: 37 figures, including needles of various shapes and sizes. Engraving with etching by George Bickham, 1740/1760?.
  • Light emitted by Röntgen Ray Tubes: the letter "X" and shapes. Photoprint from radiograph, by James Wimshurst, 1898.
  • V-shapes, grids, and diagonals; a chalice with the head of a lamb. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1976.
  • Red and purple V-shapes, with a pair of hands in the same formation. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1977.
  • A mathematician using dividers to draw geometrical shapes on a tablet. Engraving by N. Cavalli after G.B. Piazzetta.
  • Egyptian terracotta sepulchial vases in shapes, 1 Genius Amset, 2 Genius Hapi, 3 Genius Tuantmutf, 4 Genius Kalhsenuf, XXVI Dynasty.
  • Mollusc shells: classification chart showing 132 varieties, with a diagram below outlining details of the three main shapes. Coloured lithograph, 1830/1860?.
  • Light emitted by Röntgen Ray Tubes, reflected using a concave mirror: blurred letters and shapes. Photoprint from radiograph, by James Wimshurst, 1898.
  • The head of an angry red cat (?), with mauve Y-shapes and red crosses; representing pain. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • The head of an angry red cat (?), with mauve Y-shapes and red crosses; representing pain. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • An Indian woman wearing on her head a device which causes egg-like shapes to swirl around her. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Skulls and skull fragments, showing different shapes of skulls and variations in sutures, after Eustachius. Etching by I. Basire, 1743, after an engraving, c. 1552.
  • Because what you eat shapes your life : making even small changes to your diet, like including Alpro Soya, can make a big difference to your health and wellbeing.
  • A horizontal condom decorated with coloured shapes including red hearts to symbolise love; with the message "without [condoms] the desire goes away". Colour lithograph after Niki de Saint Phalle.
  • Because what you eat shapes your life : making even small changes to your diet, like including Alpro Soya, can make a big difference to your health and wellbeing.
  • A horizontal condom decorated with coloured shapes including red hearts to symbolise love; with the message "without [condoms] the desire goes away". Colour lithograph after Niki de Saint Phalle.
  • The words in French 'Restaurants mobilising against AIDS. Friday 27 & Saturday 28 September 1991' against a background of multi-coloured shapes; an advertisement by AIDES. Colour lithograph, 1991.
  • Two black shapes in the form of figures with their arms wrapped around each other representing an advertisement for an exhibition about Aids posters at The South Mall, Cork. Lithograph.
  • Development of the limbs in a mouse embryo. The feet begin as a paddle shapes with the digits being created by the programmed death of tissue in the interdigital regions.
  • Pastel-coloured figures float amidst leaf shapes against a backdrop of bullet point text describing the United Nations Principles of HIV infection; an advertisement by the Estonian Association "Anti-AIDS". Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A couple preparing tandoori rotis: the woman faces the tandoor and shapes the bread with her hands as she nurses her baby, whilst the man kneeds the dough. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Pastel-coloured figures float amidst leaf shapes against a backdrop of bullet point text describing the United Nations Principles of HIV infection; an advertisement by the Estonian Association "Anti-AIDS". Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A woman covers her nudity; but in vain, because her facial features, marked with numbered dots, allow us to interpret the hidden contours and shapes of her body (according a method attributed to Lavater). Coloured lithograph.