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  • The cross bearing Christ is hoisted up before a multitude of lamenters and soldiers. Engraving by N-H. Tardieu after B. Audran after C. le Brun.
  • Playing cards with a condom and a warning gambling games are dangerous when it comes to AIDS; an advertisement by the Lions Club of Bombay Hilltop and the HIV/AIDS Information and Guidance Centre in Bombay. Lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Two episodes about Mr. Muff and Mr. Randle at the races and being swindled out of some money. Letterpress and wood engraving.
  • A pack of black spade cards spread out to spell the word AIDS representing a warning not to gamble with your life; an advertisement by the National AIDS Committee and Hecopab. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A man crawls on all fours towards a gambling dice bearing hearts as a glamorous woman holding a bag looks on; with diagrams on how AIDS is not contracted along the bottom; an advertisement for safe sex by the OFfice of Federal Health and Swiss AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Birez.
  • The crucifixion of Christ ('The Great Crucifixion'). Engraving by Agostino Carracci, 1589, after G. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • Men gambling in a casino or gaming club. Aquatint, ca. 181-.
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • People engaged in pleasures (dancing, drinking, gaming, flirting) to counteract the pains of illness and old age. Line engraving attributed to O. van Veen (Vaenius).
  • Medusa presiding over groups of satyrs who are gambling; representing gambling or gaming as a passion. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • A skeleton hand holds a playing card bearing skull and bones, the number '12' and 'La pelona'; representing the idea that AIDS means gambling with your life, an advertisement by Conasida. Colour lithograph by Carlos Gayou, ca. 1996.
  • Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Volidan 21 the oral contraceptive with really low and predictable oestrogenic activity : gambling and the British.
  • Jephthah makes a sacrifice of his daughter according to his rash vow. Line engraving by J.W. Cook after J. Opie.
  • Every year over 300 horses are raced to death in the UK : cruelty : you can bet on it / Animal Aid.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • Hamilton Bell carrying a vintner's boy on his back from Edinburgh to Musselburgh, accompanied by John Rae, a pair of fishwives walk in the other direction. Coloured etching by J. Kay, 1792, after himself.
  • A man holds his head in despair as the croupier claims all his chips in the gambling game. Wood engraving.
  • An all-night gambling party breaks up at four o'clock in the morning: one man says he has lost his last twenty francs. Lithograph by Joseph Louis-Hippolyte Bellangé, 1824.
  • The fortunes of Peter Pickle, Esquire, whose fashionable lifestyle ends with a drink problem. Etching by R. Seymour, 1829.
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • Negligence and idleness represented as a dishevelled woman surrounded by people gambling, drinking, fighting etc. Engraving attributed to P. Galle.
  • Jephthah's daughter contemplating her virginity and her imminent death, surrounded by woeful attendants with musical instruments. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1846, after H. O'Neil.
  • Every year over 300 horses are raced to death in the UK : cruelty : you can bet on it / Animal Aid.
  • Volidan 21 the oral contraceptive with really low and predictable oestrogenic activity : gambling and the British.
  • A drunken scene in a beer shop with a young thief gambling. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • The Green Mountain Vegetable Ointment is a positive remedy for ague in face, swelled breasts ...
  • Canton, Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: street gamblers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.