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  • The parable of the mote and the beam. Oil painting by Minus (Minas) M. Zorab, 1880.
  • Children play a game with potatoes and a rag hanging from the beam. Process print after Erskine Nicol.
  • Daniel O'Connell and the devil attempt to saw an oak beam that unites England and Ireland. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
  • A group of men embroiled in a fight in the street while two men are tied up with rope and suspended from a beam across the street. Etching by A. Ashley.
  • An optical experiment, by which a man and an angel demonstrate that the strength of a beam of light is not proportionate to the distance which it has travelled. Engraving by T. Galle, 1613, after P.P. Rubens.
  • Chinese opium scales: the violin shaped cases are typical and the ivory beams are not uncommon;
  • An abattoir: animals are being killed and the carcasses hung up from beams. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams and pulleys: raised upright. Photograph, 1901.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams and pulleys: raised upright. Photograph, 1901.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams: raised upright. Photograph, 1901.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams: raised upright. Photograph, 1901.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams: north east view. Photograph, 1901.
  • A lighthouse with two beams of light left and right; advertisement for services provided by the London Lighthouse centre for those with AIDS and HIV. Colour lithograph by Sophie Herxheimer, 1991.
  • A stone quarry: masons are working the stone, and a team of horses is pulling a cart carrying a massive stone. Lithograph by C. Motte after V. Adam.
  • A block of text with the heading "L'image précède la mot" relating to an exhibition of 37 posters about the fight against AIDS; exhibition produced and organised by the ARTIS and Bruno Ughetto in partnership with L'Agence Française de Lutte conte le SIDA and the Ministère de la culture et de la francophonie. Colour lithograph.
  • A water-god embracing a goddess with a cornucopia, surrounded by figures bearing red hearts; an advertisement for women and HIV and AIDS to mark World AIDS Day 1990. Colour lithograph by Anita Viola Nielsen, 1990, for the AIDS Landsforeningen MOT.
  • A horse-drawn carriage has arrived at a church in a poor part of a town: a newly wed couple walk down the steps towards it as the coachman holds the door open and spectators stand by. Lithograph by C. Motte after V. Adam.
  • The eye of a woman looking through a hole in an orange triangle decorated with winged cupids, flowers and fabrics as she holds up a world globe with 2 fingers; an advertisement for World AIDS Day 1 December 1992 by the AIDS Landsforeningen MOT, Pluss, Helsedirektoratet, Folkehelsa and Helseutvalget for Homofile. Colour lithograph.
  • Numerous makes of condom from across the world from 'Tulipan' condoms in Argentina to 'King' condoms in Malaysia; with a message about safety when travelling abroad 'Travel against HIV ... The safest course is to bring condoms from Norway'; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Landsforeningen MOT AIDS, RFSU Norge AS and LNU. Colour lithograph by Jensen-Grey, 1992.
  • Place du Châtelet, Paris: a cart loaded with hay, a white carriage with two white horses ("Dame Blanche"), a working cart and a handcart pulled by a young boy are all gathered on the square. Lithograph by Ch. Motte, 1829, after V. Adam.
  • A diagram to show the principle of Helmholtz's ophthalmoscope. Pen and ink drawing.
  • A group of young men and women sit around two portable radios: promoting a health radio programme for teenagers in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ca. 2000.
  • A Hindu ascetic or holy man: suspended by a hook and two spikes inserted through the muscles of his back. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A poor painter seated at a canvas contemplates suicide. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • Rules of the Photographic Society Club: title page. Colour lithograph, 1856.
  • Six scenes narrating the fate of a cork leg, the invention of a Dutch artist. Etching by Joe Lisle.
  • Cell in laser beam, flow cytometry, illustration
  • A group of young men and women sit around two portable radios: promoting a health radio programme for teenagers in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ca. 2000.
  • An old woman soothes a wound on Don Quixote's back. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • A man in bedclothes prising insects (?) off his bed-curtains with a fork into a saucepan. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.