Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
42 results
  • A naked man sitting in a wooden chair rises to a standing position and turns. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A young uniformed man sitting with a pillow on his chair, facing a machine giving electro-magnetic treatment; a nurse holds his head in position. Photograph.
  • A mechanism to enable invalids to lift themselves up into the sitting position in bed. Engraving by A.W. Warren, ca. 1820, after H.W. Reveley.
  • A woman, naked above the waist, sitting on the ground with her legs stretched out to her left, rises to a standing position, a folded paper in her right hand. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Directorscut : positive : [man sitting in Rodin's 'Thinker' pose] / photo: Nick Wright.
  • Directorscut : positive : [man sitting in Rodin's 'Thinker' pose] / photo: Nick Wright.
  • Three women of different cultures sit smiling against a window to represent an advert for Positively Women. Colour lithograph.
  • Peter Zamara, an HIV positive man, sits leaning against a baseball post holding a ball; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • A woman and a man sitting on a sofa with a man sitting on the floor and another standing representing counselling for those with HIV/AIDS; advertisement by the World Health Organization for living positively with HIV. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Frankie Alston, an HIV positive woman, sits with one knee up on a bench looking out to sea; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • Peter Uitenbosch, an HIV positive man, sits by a computer with one hand on his beard with a message implying the stigma of having the HIV infection; a poster from the Business responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph, 1993.
  • A man with a square head bearing the HIV positive and negative sign sits holding his erect penis with the words 'Always' written across his body; advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph by David McDiarmid, 1992.
  • A man sitting down looking upset because of a positive HIV test result beside him; he remembers the night he had unprotected sex with a woman outside a disco; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Landsforeningen Ungdomsringen. Colour lithograph by Robert Lindvig, 1994.
  • A semi-naked woman sits on a chair and puts on a stocking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A semi-naked woman sits on a chair and puts on a stocking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed, sitting woman puts on boots then stands up. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman sitting on a chair puts on a shoe then stands up. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman sitting in a wooden chair holds an open fan in her right hand, stands, bends to pick up a handkerchief from the ground and begins to straighten up again. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman sitting in a chair picks up a towel and dries her left foot. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A naked woman sitting in a chair having convulsions. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A clothed woman places a chair on the ground, sits on it, crosses her legs and fans herself. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Padmapani, in Tibetan Chenresi, the particular protector of Tibet. Chromolithograph.
  • Adult couple sitting on a bed, Down's syndrome
  • Adult with Down's syndrome
  • Adults with Down's syndrome
  • Asymmetric cell division in a live zebrafish embryo.
  • A withered tree bearing apples labelled with sins; representing the life of the base, 'natural' man. Etching, 1771, after J. Bakewell.
  • A naked man with motor neuron disease, walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A black banjo player with a wooden leg. Photograph, ca. 1865 (?).
  • A shaving machine powered by steam. Coloured etching by R. Seymour.