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An advertisement for a maker of glass instruments: showing thermometers, hour-glasses, and barometers. Engraving.
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An angel in a large pot holding an hour-glass surrounded by beautiful countryside - advertising a calming potion. Aquatint.
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Watching the hour-glass ...
Chalmers, Stephen, 1880-1935.Date: 1913- Books
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A select collection of epitaphs: carefully collected from the tombstones of the most eminent personages in England, Scotland and Ireland. To which are added many That are celebrated for their Oddity and Quaintness of Expression.
Kill-Care.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his face in the background. Mezzotint by Jan van der Bruggen after D. Teniers II, 167-.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [167?-?]Reference: 600083i- Pictures
An alchemist poring over a book, on his table stand an hour-glass, a skull, and an astrological globe. Engraving by J.N. Tardieu after D. Teniers the younger, 1640/1650.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 35507i- Pictures
Colours inside an hour glass shape. Watercolour by David Thomas Meredith, 1976.
Meredith, David Thomas, active approximately 1975-1989.Date: 23.3.76 [23 March 1976]Reference: 3005824iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
Death as a skeletal figure wielding a scythe: representing fears concerning the Vaccination Act 1898 which removed penalties for not vaccinating against smallpox. Wood engraving by Sir E.L. Sambourne, 1898.
Sambourne, Linley, 1844-1910.Date: 1898Reference: 14318i- Books
Case of hour-glass relaxation or irregular contraction of the uterus / by T. Sanctuary.
Sanctuary, T.Date: 1878- Pictures
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A sickly young woman sits covered up on a balcony; death (a ghostly skeleton clutching a scythe and an hourglass) is standing next to her; representing tuberculosis. Watercolour by R. Cooper, ca. 1912.
Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957.Date: [1912?]Reference: 24009i- Pictures
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Two Sacred Hearts in a landscape, united by two doves, separated by an hour glass. Watercolour.
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A crowned skeleton with three arrows. Etching, 1806.
Date: 1 September 1806Reference: 26261i- Pictures
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A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Engraving after J. Northcote.
Northcote, James, 1746-1831.Reference: 21592i- Pictures
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A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Coloured mezzotint by J. Walker, ca. 1783, after J. Northcote.
Northcote, James, 1746-1831.Date: 1783Reference: 22185i- Pictures
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A woman doctor examining a girl's finger. Etching after J. Northcote.
Northcote, James, 1746-1831.Reference: 21593i- Ephemera
Fresh and young, Roxanne : a genuine hour glass figure, quench your thirst and enter a labyrinth of exotic pleasure, class with distinction, WC1.
Date: [1991]- Pictures
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Truth represented as the word of God assailed by persecution, superstition, tradition, betrayal and violence. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.Date: 1622Reference: 26703iPart of: XL Emblemata miscella nova- Pictures
A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his face sulks in the background. Engraving by F. Hubert after D. Teniers II.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 16471i- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his face sulks in the background. Engraving by Hubert after D. Teniers II.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 16473i- Pictures
A woman holding an hourglass and a baton; representing arithmetic. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
Delaune, Etienne, 1518?-1583.Date: 1560Reference: 25859i- Pictures
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A skeleton, seated on a ledge, writes 'Recueil D'anatomie' on the cover of a book: behind him is shown an anatomy drawing and an hour-glass. Etching by or after J. Gamelin, 1778/1779.
Gamelin, Jacques, 1739-1803.Date: [1779]Reference: 569949iPart of: Gamelin, Jacques- Pictures
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Melancholia: a female figure contemplating a skull, surrounded by attributes of knowledge and learning. Engraving after D. Fetti.
Fetti, Domenico, approximately 1589-1623.Reference: 20080i- Pictures
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A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his face sulks in the background. Lithograph by Madame Fabroni after D. Teniers II.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 16467i- Pictures
A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 20093i- Pictures
A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 35974i