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The adoration of the magi. Etching, 1733, after S. Gribelin, 1712, after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
Veronese, 1528-1588.Date: 1733Reference: 3022640i- Ephemera
"Damaged goods": The great play on the social evil by Brieux.
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The virgin in Eden: or, the state of innocency. Deliver'd by way of image and description. Presenting a nobleman, a student, and heiress, on their progress from sodom to Canaan. With the Parable of the Shepherd, Zachariah, and Mary, who dwelt in thatched Tenements, secluded from Noise and Snares. Their holy Living and Dying. To which are added, Pamela's Letters proved to be immodest Romances painted in Images of Virtue: Masquerades in Disguise, that receiv'd Birth now Vice reigns in Triumph, and swells in Streams even to a Deluge. In this Treatise are the Divine Sayings of Queen Mary and Carolina in publick Assemblies and select Companies. Taken from their own Manuscripts. The Decree of God appoints these Records to be kept in every House, in every Kingdom and State, from one Generation to another, till the great Fall of Nature. Wrote by the author of the sheets entitled, Torments after death. That Copy, of which such vast Numbers were printed and sold, Four, Seven, and in some Houses Twenty, to send into the Country and beyond the Seas.
Povey, Charles, 1652?-1743.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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The virgin in Eden: or, the state of innocency. Deliver'd by way of image and description. Presenting a nobleman, a student, and heiress, on their progress from Sodom to Canaan. With the parable of the shepherd, Zachariah, and Mary, who dwelt in thatched tenements, secluded from noise and snares. Their holy living and dying. To which are added, Pamela's letters proved to be immodest romances painted in images of virtue: masquerades in disguise, that receiv'd birth now vice reigns in triumph, and swells in streams even to a deluge. In this treatise are the divine sayings of Queen Mary and Carolina in publick assemblies and select companies. Taken from their own manuscripts. The decree of God appoints these records to be kept in every house, in every kingdom and state, from one generation to another, till the great fall of nature. Wrote by the author of the sheets entitled, Torments after death. That copy, of which such vast numbers were printed and sold, four, seven, and in some houses twenty, to send into the country and beyond the seas.
Povey, Charles, 1652?-1743.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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The virgin in Eden: or, the state of innocency. Deliver'd by way of image and description. Presenting a nobleman, a student, and heiress, on their progress from Sodom to Canaan. With the parable of the Shepherd, Zachariah, and Mary, who dwelt in thatched Tenements, secluded from Noise and Snares. Their holy Living and Dying. To which are added, Pamela's Letters proved to be immodest Romances painted in Images of Virtue: Masquerades in Disguise, that receiv'd Birth now Vice reigns in Triumph, and swells in Streams even to a Deluge. In this Treatise are the Divine Sayings of Queen Mary and Carolina in publick Assemblies and select Companies. Taken from their own Manuscripts. The Decree of God appoints these Records to be kept in every House, in every Kingdom and State, from one Generation to another, till the great Fall of Nature. Wrote by the author of the sheets entitled, Torments after death. That Copy, of which such vast Numbers were printed and sold, Four, Seven, and in some Houses Twenty, to send into the Country and beyond the Seas.
Povey, Charles, 1652?-1743.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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The curious traveller. Being A Choice Collection of very remarkable Histo-Tories, Voyages, Travels, &c. Digested into Familiar Letters and Conversations. Containing among many other Particulars, the following: The Spanish Cruelties in the West-Indies. A curious Account of the Snow Alps. A Tragical Account relating to a Shipwicck. Of the Troubles and Conspiracies at the Russian Court. Of the Burning Mountain. Of the Common-Wealth of Bees. An Account of Crocodiles. Curiosities discover'd at Hanover. An Account of a terrible Earth-Quake. The Siege of Prom. Mihometans in the Indies. A Description of the City of Hamburgh. The White Island. St. Mark at Venice. Bull-Baiting at Venice. Fortune-Telling ridiculed. A curious Monument in Persia. An Hospital for Monkeys. A mock Sea Fight on the River Thames. The Ruins of Persepolis. The History of Snow. Observations on the Art of Painting. An Insurrection at Muscow. A Widow burns herself for the Death of her Husband. A Stratagem of a Negro at Fida. Maurice Island. An Account of Thunder and Lightning. The Rasbut Robbers, &c. Adorn'd with Cuts.
Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Pictures
A goatherd playing a pipe on the banks of a river by an estuary. Aquatint by M. Dubourg, 1809, after W.M. Craig after Claude Lorraine.
Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682.Date: Jan.y 12 1809Reference: 3055142i- Archives and manuscripts
Works created in Adamson's studios
Date: 1946-1990Reference: PP/ADA/C/8Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)- Pictures
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An exhausted stag is hunted into a river by two hounds. Etching by J. Cousen after E. H. Landseer.
Landseer, Edwin, Sir, 1802-1873.Reference: 40139i- Digital Images
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Tigridia pavonia (L.f.)DC. Iridaceae Distribution: Peru. These colourful, tulip-like flowers were named by De Candolle for Joseph (José) Pavón Jiménez (1754-1840), the Spanish pharmacist/botanist who accompanied Hipólito Ruiz and Joseph Dombey on their epic botanising in Peru and Chile (1777-1788) in search of quinine and medicinal plants. On the 8th April 1777, King Carlos III of Spain gave permission for the three botanists and two artists to travel from Spain to America to study the flora of Peru and Chile, then Spanish dominions. Initially around Lima, and then further afield, they collected plants which their artists painted
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
A figure on a diving board at an indoor swimming pool (artwork)
Date: 1940s-1997Reference: PP/RSI/B/2/7/58Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Pictures
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World War I: The Red Cross in the trenches.
Cuneo, Cyrus, 1879-1916Date: [approximately 1915]Reference: 46017i- Pictures
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Jean Calvin on his deathbed, with eight men in attendance. Lithograph by Jacott, 1850.
Jacott, Jean-Julien.Date: [1850]Reference: 547651i- Archives and manuscripts
Stripes and shapes, forming a landscape (artwork).
Date: 1970sReference: PP/RSI/B/1/3/8/5Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)
Date: 1800-1985Reference: WA/HSW- Pictures
A woman with three children, representing Charity. Engraving by J.K. Sherwin and J. Parker, 1793, after G. Reni.
Reni, Guido, 1575-1642.Date: March 1, 1793Reference: 3006434i- Pictures
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The Last Judgment: the world lies in ruins and sinners in hell are tortured by monstrous devils. Engraving by Petrus de Jode the elder, 1615, after Jean Cousin the younger.
Cousin, Jehan, approximately 1522-approximately 1593.Date: [between 1726 and 1738]Reference: 46790i- Pictures
An old man, and a boy with a bird. Etching by A. Pond, ca. 1736, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
Guercino, 1591-1666.Date: 1736Reference: 3015402i- Pictures
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An episode in Macbeth by William Shakespeare: the three witches. Mezzotint by J.R. Smith, 1785, after H. Fuseli, 1783.
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825.Date: 10 March 1785Reference: 576077i- Archives and manuscripts
Founders: Henry Solomon Wellcome
Date: 1869-1990Reference: WF/M/I/PR/F01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Normal psychology patient 8 - geriatric
Date: 1970sReference: PP/RSI/B/1/3/8Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Pictures
Engravings by and after Annibale Carracci, Agostino Carracci and Lodovico Carracci. Album compiled by Pietro Fancelli.
Fancelli, Pietro, 1764-1850.Date: [between 1600 and 1699 - 1850]Reference: 29876i- Digital Images
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An anti-AIDS poster produced by Artis
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A man riding on a horse which is pulling a wagon loaded with masonry, while another man attempts to keep the wagon steady. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir Peter Paul Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 29903i- Pictures
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The skin of an écorché. Ink drawing, Tibet.
Reference: 582144i