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  • Thesaurus thesaurorum
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  • Rivers running in the wilderness, with serpents and fire between them; representing the stage of 'multiplication' in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • A large red ribbon decorated with hearts in the centre of numerous other artistic impressions of the red ribbon symbol representing an advertisement for World Aids Day by the National Aids Trust. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Shanghai, China: a woman wearing a velvet snood. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Shanghai, China: a woman wearing a velvet snood. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • The words 'SIDA' being rubbed out with a rubber bearing the EU symbol representing an advertisement for the 3rd European conference on the care and treatment of AIDS in Paris on 12 and 13th March 1992; advertisement by Mairie de Paris. Colour lithograph.
  • A head containing over thirty images symbolising the phrenological faculties. Wood engraving, c. 1845, after O.S. Fowler (?).
  • A small pinned AIDS red ribbon against a white background representing an advertisement for World AIDS Day 1 December. Colour lithograph by Kathrin Bartelheim.
  • Tibetan cosmological amulet for protection against diseases. Gouache painting, Tibet.
  • A lesbian couple, an anxious woman and a man with a message about the solidarity of the people of the Nord-Pas-De-Calais region against AIDS; advertisement for the SIDA Info Service supported by the Region Nord Pas-de-Calais. Lithograph by L'Agence Verte and Empreintes 95.
  • A head containing over thirty images symbolising the phrenological faculties. Wood engraving, c. 1845, after O.S. Fowler (?).
  • A head containing over thirty images symbolising the phrenological faculties. Wood engraving, c. 1845, after O.S. Fowler (?).
  • A head marked with images representing the phrenological faculties, with a key below. Coloured wood engraving, ca. 1845, after H. Bushea and O.S. Fowler (?).
  • A head marked with images representing the phrenological faculties, with a key below. Coloured wood engraving, ca. 1845, after H. Bushea and O.S. Fowler (?).
  • 10th self-portrait.
  • 10th self-portrait.
  • 13th self-portrait.
  • 13th self-portrait.
  • A man standing, anterior view with brain and contents of thorax and abdomen exposed. Engraving by Giulio de' Musi, by 1552, first published in 1714.
  • The medicine Buddha (Bhaiṣajyaguru) and Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • The medicine Buddha (Bhaiṣajyaguru) and Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • The medicine Buddha (Bhaiṣajyaguru) and Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • The assumption of Queen Victoria. Photogravure, 1902, after A. Drummond, 1901.
  • Hippopotamuses with elephants in African jungle, representing the Behemoth of the Old Testament. Colour wood engraving attributed to Edmund Evans, 1867.