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  • Florence May Virtue Blythe Brown. Photograph.
  • A military doctor / J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd.
  • A military doctor / J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd.
  • Machinery: a steam-driven sugar mill. Engraving by J. S. Virtue, 1862.
  • Hercules between Virtue and Vice. Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • Engraved emblem of Hercules choosing between Virtue and Vice, Vice taking off a mask and showing the deformities of syphilis.
  • A tree bearing apples labelled with virtues; representing the life of Christian virtue. Coloured lithograph, 1870, after J. Bakewell, 1771.
  • A masonic tribute to the duchess of Leinster, a governess of Lock Penitentiary, Dublin: she is attended by Virtue and Fame. Etching by H. Brocas, 1794.
  • A woman pouring wine from a jug into a goblet; representing the virtue of temperance. Etching, 16--.
  • A standing figure in a red aureole surrounded by red crosses; representing virtue, pain and anger. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • A standing figure in a red aureole surrounded by red crosses; representing virtue, pain and anger. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1967.
  • Thanks to the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Virtue and Truth prevent Human Pride from resisting the efforts of Nature to allow children to live a happy life. Engraving by G. Vidal after Ch. Monnet.
  • Death mask of Eustache, a slave from the Dominican republic who came to be awarded a 'prize for virtue' in 1830's Paris. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph after E.J. Pigal.
  • The lottery: the allegorical figures of virtue and vice perform a show on stage; various allegorical figures in the foreground. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth, 1724.
  • A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E.J. Pigal, 1824.
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  • The annals of Newgate; or, Malefactors register. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions, and trials of the most notorious malefactors ... Calculated to expose the deformity of vice, the infamy and punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the paths of virtue ... / By the Rev. Mr. Villette.
  • Rosa gallica L. Rosaceae Distribution: S & C Europe, Western Asia. Culpeper: “Red roses cool, bind, strengthen both vital and animal virtue, restores such as are in consumptions, strengthen. Notes: Rose water and distilled oil of roses have been used in herbal medicine for over a thousand years, and are still used in aromatherapy. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A plain and easie method for preserving [by God's blessing] those that are well from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper in city, camp, fleet, &c. and for curing such as are infected with it. Written in the year 1666 / By Tho. Willis ... With a poem on the virtue of a laurel leaf for curing of a rheumatism. By W[illiam] B[olton]. Never before printed.
  • A plain and easie method for preserving [by God's blessing] those that are well from the infection of the plague, or any contagious distemper in city, camp, fleet, &c. and for curing such as are infected with it. Written in the year 1666 / By Tho. Willis ... With a poem on the virtue of a laurel leaf for curing of a rheumatism. By W[illiam] B[olton]. Never before printed.
  • Fame proclaiming the virtues of the remedy Tabonuco Pectoral. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.
  • Fame proclaiming the virtues of the remedy Tabonuco Pectoral. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.
  • The three theological virtues (Hope, Faith and Charity) are standing near an altar above which the Holy Spirit is hovering, while the the four cardinal virtues (Temperance, Justice, Fortitude and Wisdom) are sitting in the foreground. Engraving.
  • A short and candid account of the nature and virtues of the new Iron Pear-Tree water.
  • A short and candid account of the nature and virtues of the new Iron Pear-Tree water.
  • The three theological virtues: Faith enthroned in the middle; Charity on the left, and Hope on the right. Aquatint.
  • A bishop ordains John Horne Tooke as a priest: the devil replaces the ordinand's virtues with vices. Engraving, 1771.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.
  • In use 100 years : The Poor Man's Friend or ointment of many virtues ; Pilula Antiscrophula or alterative pills.