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  • Valentine's preparation of Meat-Juice : established (1871) by Manns Valentine, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. / Valentine's Meat-Juice Company.
  • Valentine's preparation of Meat-Juice : established (1871) by Manns Valentine, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. / Valentine's Meat-Juice Company.
  • The recovery room, in which patients recover from a surgical operation. Soft-ground etching and aquatint by Virginia Powell, ca. 1995.
  • St. Ann Heath Lunatic Asylum, Virginia Water, Windsor. Wood engraving by D.R. Warry, 1872, after Crossland, Salomans, & Jones.
  • Operating theatre reception: one of the assistants sitting at a computer, with a chart of operations behind. Drawing by Virginia Powell, 1995.
  • American Civil War: officers saluting the wounded being brought in after the battle of Lewinsville, Virginia, 1861. Wood engraving by F. Skill.
  • The exterior of a small brick building used as an apothecary shop by Dr. Archibald Blair in the eighteenth century, Virginia. Photograph.
  • A barber dressing a man's hair in a barber's shop at Richmond, Virginia; another man reads 'The New York Herald' while he awaits his turn. Wood engraving after E. Crowe.
  • Bacon's rebellion, Virginia, 1676-1677: Lydia, the wife of the rebel Edmund Cheeseman, faints as he is condemned for treason by the governor of Virgina, William Berkeley; a toothless old lady is restrained from attacking her. Coloured etching by A. Bobbet after F. Darley.
  • Adventure Picures presents a film by Sally Potter based on the book by Virginia Woolf, Orlando : Tilda Swinton, with Quentin Crisp as Elizabeth I : Charity premiere and party in aid of London Lighthouse & Breakthrough : Wednesday March 10th 1993.
  • Adventure Picures presents a film by Sally Potter based on the book by Virginia Woolf, Orlando : Tilda Swinton, with Quentin Crisp as Elizabeth I : Charity premiere and party in aid of London Lighthouse & Breakthrough : Wednesday March 10th 1993.
  • Adventure Picures presents a film by Sally Potter based on the book by Virginia Woolf, Orlando : Tilda Swinton, with Quentin Crisp as Elizabeth I : Charity premiere and party in aid of London Lighthouse & Breakthrough : Wednesday March 10th 1993.
  • Adventure Picures presents a film by Sally Potter based on the book by Virginia Woolf, Orlando : Tilda Swinton, with Quentin Crisp as Elizabeth I : Charity premiere and party in aid of London Lighthouse & Breakthrough : Wednesday March 10th 1993.
  • Lobelia cardinalis L Campanulaceae Cardinal lobelia Distribution: Americas, Colombia to south-eastern Canada. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. It was introduced from Virginia to John Parkinson in England by John Newton (1580-1647) a surgeon of Colyton (aka Colliton), Devon, who travelled to Virginia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Oenothera macrocarpa Nutt. Onagraceae. Ozark Sundrops, Bigfruit Evening Primrose. Formerly O. missouriensis. Distribution: South central USA. O. macrocarpa does not appear to have been used medicinally, but other species are so used. Austin (2004) records that O. biennis (Evening Primrose) was used by Native Americans as a potherb in West Virginia. Leaves as salad, roots boiled like potato also infusion to treat obesity and relieve piles (Cherokee)
  • Virginie resting by a fountain in Mauritius. Engraving by C. Heath, 1820, after R. Westall.
  • Paul and Virginie are found by their slave Domingue and their dog Fidele when they are lost in the forests of Mauritius. Engraving.
  • Virginie giving a bowl of food to a starving black slave woman who has fled from her master. Engraving by E. Rouargue, 1824, after A. Desenne.
  • Louise Chevalier in the role of Virginie is feeding water from her hands into the mouth of a black man in a loin-cloth. Mezzotint by J. Ward, 1799, after C. Henard.
  • A slave is kneeling on the ground as Paul and Virginie try to protect him from a slave-owner holding a pipe and a stick. Engraving by G. Barrett, 1788, after J. Moreau.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as Virgin of La Salette. Coloured lithograph.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as Virgin of the Seven Sorrows. Pouncing.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as Virgin of the Seven Sorrows. Lithograph.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as Virgin of the Seven Sorrows. Colour photogravure.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as the Virgin of La Salette. Coloured lithograph.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as Virgin of the Seven Sorrows. Colour photogravure.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as the Virgin of the Seven Sorrows. Colour lithograph.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) as Virgin of the Seven Sorrows. Coloured line block.
  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin), as the Virgin Immaculate. Engraving by C. Galle, 16--.
  • The Virgin of Guadalupe.