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A man sits and paints a picture of the exiled Adam and Eve; his wife suckles a baby; representing the thirtieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.
Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26378i- Pictures
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A female figure at an easel is helped by another with a compass; representing perspective and geometry in art. Coloured stipple engraving, 1786.
Date: 1 July 1786Reference: 25991i- Pictures
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A surgeon extracting the stone of folly. Oil painting by Pieter Huys, ca. 1561.
Huys, Pieter, 1519-1581.Date: [1561?]Reference: 45046i- Pictures
Difficulties and horrors of life shown in cells of an underground grotto. Gouache by W. Kurelek, ca. 1953-1954.
Kurelek, William, 1927-1977.Date: [between approximately 1953 and 1954]Reference: 3025695iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
The seven ages of man, represented by vehicles appropriate to each age. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1967.
Lewis, Muriel, active approximately 1966-1968.Date: July 67 [July 1967]Reference: 3000212iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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The triumph of the arts through the patronage of Francesco Maria Febei. Etching by P. Aquila, 167-.
Aquila, Pietro, active 17th century.Date: [between 1670 and 1679?]Reference: 11607iPart of: Paintings by Annibale Carracci in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome. Etchings by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.- Pictures
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Aesculapius and other ancients are presented with exotic materia medica from the far east, which are turned into medicines in a pharmaceutical elaboratory. Oil painting by Johannes Prey, 1791.
Prey, Johannes Zacharias Simon, 1749-1822.Date: 17 7/16 91 [i.e. 16 July 1791]Reference: 466059i- Pictures
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An old man dozing in a chair; representing the eightieth year of life. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16--.
Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26389i- Pictures
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Cherubs and demons hold up pictures in front of a youth; a woman embroiders; representing the age of twenty. Engraving by Conrad Meyer, 16---.
Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26377i- Pictures
The personification of the art of painting, supported by Cardinal Girolamo Buonvisi, arrives on a triumphal car at Mount Parnassus where she is greeted by the muses. Etching by P. Testa, ca. 1642.
Testa, Pietro, 1611-1650.Date: 1642Reference: 3162929i- Pictures
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Aesculapius and Hygieia, with Hercules fighting the hydra; representing medicine. Watercolour painting.
Reference: 26069i- Pictures
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A man caresses a woman; representing the sense of touch. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, c. 1650.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: 1600-1699Reference: 26947i- Pictures
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A female allegory of painting being crowned by Cupid. Engraving.
Reference: 33061i- Pictures
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The figure of Philosophy appearing to Boethius. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after C. Ciappori after a 15th-century painting.
Boethius, -524.Date: [1858]Reference: 91i- Pictures
Page 160: two images, one of a traditionally dressed woman and an allegorical figure. Watercolour drawing.
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A giant claw pierces the breast of a sleeping naked woman, another naked woman swoops down and stabs the claw with a knife; representing the surgical treatment of breast cancer. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957.Reference: 24003i- Pictures
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The Thames as a gateway to foreign trade routes. Etching by J. Barry, 1791.
Barry, James, 1741-1806.Date: May 1 1791Reference: 12117i- Pictures
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A street carnival in Bogotá, with a battle between personifications of medicine and disease. Watercolour by F.-D. Roulin, 1822/1828.
Roulin, François Désiré.Date: [1822/1828]Reference: 28930i- Pictures
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A woman personifying the art of painting. Engraving by A. Testa after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
Guercino, 1591-1666.Reference: 33126i- Pictures
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The five senses and death. Watercolour by Elizabeth Painter, 1957.
Painter, Elizabeth, English watercolour painter, active 1937-1957.Date: 1957Reference: 460376i- Pictures
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A young man holding a stylus and a drawing, being shown a drawing of Fame by a female figure personifying Painting. Wash drawing by F. Dekker after G. Reni.
Reni, Guido, 1575-1642.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 33691i- Pictures
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The vivisector asked to choose between head and heart. Photogravure, 1886, after an etching by M.J. Holzapfl after a painting by Gabriel von Max, 1883.
Max, Gabriel Cornelius von, 1840-1915.Date: [1886]Reference: 528621i- Pictures
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A solicitor and a barrister throw black paint or tar at a woman sitting at the feet of a statue of Justice. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1892.
Merry, Tom, 1852-1902.Date: January 9th 1892Reference: 564947i- Pictures
History gives a pen to Painting (representing Frans van Mieris II), and encourages her to write the history of the princes who have governed the Netherlands. Engraving by B. Picart, 1732.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1732Reference: 2853465i- Pictures
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A bearded old man and a young woman representing Philosophy and Art respectively: he points to a book about mechanics and science, while she points to a painting of the Nativity of Christ. Engraving by W. Ridgway after D. Huntington.
Huntington, Daniel, 1816-1906.Reference: 38945i