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  • A specimen of printing types / Joseph Fry and Sons, letter-founders, Worship-Street, Moorfields.
  • A specimen of printing types / Joseph Fry and Sons, letter-founders, Worship-Street, Moorfields.
  • Three headed Osiris taking an oath, Phallic worship.
  • Episodes in the Pentateuch involving sacrifice, worship and idol-worshipping. Engraving.
  • Worship at a Hindu shrine, India. Coloured aquatint by Edward Orme and Joseph Constantine Stadler after Thomas Daniell, 1804.
  • Men worship an ass bearing a religious image; alluding to both Aesop's fable of the ass and idol worship in Arianism and contemporary Catholicism. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • A muezzin on a minaret calling on the faithful to worship; a muezzin calling. Etching, 1787.
  • Pilgrims with roses worship a snake shrine while a Brahmin priest and attendants pray during a snake festival. Gouache drawing.
  • Saint Catherine of Alexandria: she stands before a statue of a pagan deity, preaching against the worship of it. Engraving.
  • Pilgrims with roses worship a snake shrine while a Brahmin priest and attendants pray during a snake festival. Gouache drawing.
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • Human skull with painted features and cowrie shell eyes. The hair is real. Said to have been used in rituals associated with ancestor worship. Papua New Guinea
  • A morai, place of burial and worship, in Atooi (Kauai); encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by D. Lerpinière, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Examples for good and bad Christian conduct from the Old and New Testaments: the wise judgment of Solomon and his worship of other Gods, the poor Lazarus and the rich man. Etching.
  • The inside of a hut in a morai, place of burial and worship, in Atooi (Kauai); encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by E. Scott, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary Islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, etc / By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew.
  • Illustrated tantric scroll showing rewards devotees receive from worship and obedience to demi-gods. At the top, a mythical creature displaying features of various animals, e. g. tail of a peacock, the bill of a crow etc. Below, to the left, Mahakala and Mahakali, god and goddess of fire are illustrated, with to the right the Hakini or demi-god with seven faces, the middle face having three eyes.
  • Illustrated tantric scroll showing rewards devotees receive from worship and obedience to demi-gods. At the top, a mythical creature displaying features of various animals, e. g. tail of a peacock, the bill of a crow etc. Below, to the left, Mahakala and Mahakali, god and goddess of fire are illustrated, with to the right the Hakini or demi-god with seven faces, the middle face having three eyes.
  • Krishna with two worshippers, as worshipped in Nathdwara, Rajasthan. Chromolithograph.
  • Rama being carried by Garuda while a devotee worships him. Gouache drawing.
  • Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.
  • Hanuman with two worshippers. Gouache drawing.
  • Group of model figures showing a worshipper.
  • Bhairava riding a dog with worshipper. Gouache drawing.
  • Krishna attended by gopis, cows and worshippers. Gouache painting.
  • Jagannath as a monstrous beast, with a human worshipper and