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  • A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.
  • A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.
  • A priest administering extreme unction to a dying nun. Colour stipple engraving.
  • A nun holding a medicine spoon with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
  • Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa: operating theatre with nun and nurse. Photograph, c. 1905.
  • A nun holding a medicine spoon with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
  • A nun, smiling, raising her hands and looking upwards. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1973.
  • A nun, smiling, raising her hands and looking upwards. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1973.
  • A nun (Sister of Charity) feeding a sick patient. Line engraving by C. Duflos.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
  • A nun, traditionally identified as Suor Maria Celeste, daughter of Galileo Galilei. Oil painting.
  • A nun wearing her habit holding a jug in the grounds of her convent. Watercolour.
  • Nun who accompanied F. Nightingale to the Crimea, 1854
  • Héloïse as a nun in her cell contemplating the Holy Cross. Mezzotint by J.R. Smith, 1792.
  • A nun in her habit carrying medicine and her Bible, with her hospital behind her. Watercolour drawing.
  • A nun from the Hospital of Santo Spirito, Rome. Coloured line engraving by C. Duflos le père.
  • A sheet with two sketches of a nun's head and a standing male figure painting. Pencil drawing.
  • A nun in a purple habit approaching a well near a Gothic building. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • A nun in a purple habit approaching a well near a Gothic building. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • A Nun (Sister of Charity) bloodletting a seated patient. Line engraving.
  • A nun being visited in the monastery by female relatives. Engraving by S. Smith after Sir C.L. Eastlake.
  • A nursing nun, carrying a tray of food and hot drink, wearing the habit of her order. Watercolour drawing.
  • A nun in a mountainous landscape falls over a roadside wall into a precipice. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1957.
  • A nun in a mountainous landscape falls over a roadside wall into a precipice. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1957.
  • A communal bath house: women and children washing, a Buddhist nun shaving her head. Coloured woodcut by Hokusai, 1834.
  • A baby is being taken care of by a nun in a convent. Etching by Alberto Maso Gilli after himself.
  • A nun with two children in a convent pharmacy, surrounded attributes of the trade. Lithograph by André after E. Pingret.
  • A nun brings some refreshment to a feverish patient, with a poem by Legouvé. Coloured lithograph by J.P. Moynet, 1846.