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  • The fall; expelled from Eden, Adam and Eve raise a family and set to work. Engraving by Scotin, c. 1765.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • The gold-headed cane / by William Macmichael, M.D.; edited with explanatory and illustrative notes and an essay on William Macmichael, M.D., his life, his works, and his editors, by Herbert Spencer Robinson; containing the original illustrations of the 1828 edition and hitherto unpublished portraits of the Macmichael family and a reproduction of William Macmichael's handwriting.
  • Farm workers celebrate the bringing in of the harvest, and a woman offers drinks to the landlord's family or to city visitors; representing Autumn. Wood engraving by T.H. Wilson.
  • The English house-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth and dying; the knowledge of dayries, office of malting; of oates, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a household / A work generally approved, and now the fourth time much augmented. Purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this kingdome. By G.M.
  • The English house-wife. Containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman. As her skill in physicke, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth and dying; the knowledge of dayries, office of malting; of oates, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a household / A work generally approved, and now the fourth time much augmented. Purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this kingdome. By G.M.
  • An alchemist with his family in their dim dwelling, working a bellows at his furnace. Engraving by J.C. Bentley after A. van Ostade, 1661.
  • An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps in the dim background, a baby clasped to her breast. Coloured lithograph by Bouvier, 1830, after J. Steen.
  • An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps in the dim background, a baby clasped to her breast. Engraving by J. Boydell, c. 1760, after J. Steen.
  • An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps in the dim background, a baby clasped to her breast. Engraving by J. Boydell, c. 1760, after J. Steen.
  • A group of three 'puffers' (uninitiated alchemists) reading books, and a credulous peasant trying his luck at alchemy, his weeping wife and miserable child trying to detain him from alchemical pursuit. Engraving by F. Godefroy after J. Steen.
  • A group of three 'puffers' (uninitiated alchemists) reading books, and a credulous peasant trying his luck at alchemy, his weeping wife and miserable child trying to detain him from alchemical pursuit. Engraving by F. Godefroy after J. Steen.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.
  • A woman breast feeding her baby in the family's home and workshop; perhaps a comparison to the Holy Family. Engraving by J. Le Bas and P. Martini, 1772, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640.
  • An alchemist's laboratory inhabited by monkeys: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after their obsessive, fruitless experiments. Etching by P. van der Borcht, ca. 1580.
  • The youthful Christ helps Joseph with his carpentry; Mary and Anne look on. Lithograph by A. Dircks, 1849, after C. Müller.
  • Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: a family (father and three children) all suffering from leprosy. Photograph, 1921.
  • A woman with knitting in her hands is looking down on a small child in a cart. Process print after H. von Herkomer, 1877.
  • A woman with knitting in her hands is looking down on a small child in a cart. Process print after H. von Herkomer, 1877.
  • A man and wife with their two children representing a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the NGO AIDS Consortium with PATH in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Lives of British physicians / [Anon].
  • A young woman holding up a casket on a dish as she looks back over her shoulder. Etching by J. Heath, 1815, after Titian.