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The Christ Child strews a bed of roses for himself inside the believer's heart which is surrounded by roses and venerated by angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
Anton Wierix IIDate: [1600?]Reference: 31759i
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The Christ Child painting pictures (the Last Judgment, the Assumption of the Virgin and a scene from hell) on the inner wall of the believer's heart. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
Anton Wierix IIDate: [1600?]Reference: 31761i
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The Christ Child as a professor sitting at a desk in the believer's heart, lecturing to angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
Anton Wierix IIDate: [1600?]Reference: 31760i
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The Christ Child, in the believer's heart, beats the time from a songbook while angels accompany him with musical instruments. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
Anton Wierix IIDate: [1600?]Reference: 31749i
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The Christ Child brings light into a heart discovering snakes and other animals. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
Anton Wierix IIDate: [1600?]Reference: 31770i
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The Christ Child shooting arrows into the believer's heart to conquer the fires of lust. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
Anton Wierix IIDate: [1600?]Reference: 31746i
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An allegorical female decorated with flower garlands and the feathers of the Prince of Wales is sitting in a chariot drawn by tigers; representing peace. Coloured etching.
Reference: 39062i
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An allegorical female figure assisting victims of the 1720 plague in Marseille. Etching by C.V. Normand (Normand the elder), 1856, after F.P.S. Gérard, 1834.
François GérardDate: 1856Reference: 10086i
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The countries of Europe representing physicians and surgeons trying to regenerate a woman personifying the Dutch republic. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.
David HessDate: [1797?]Reference: 532358i
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Medicine chest supplied to Shackleton Expedition
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Thanks to the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Virtue and Truth prevent Human Pride from resisting the efforts of Nature to allow children to live a happy life. Engraving by G. Vidal after Ch. Monnet.
Charles MonnetDate: [1782/1785]Reference: 46980i
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Three men read while a woman writes numerals; representing arithmetic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
Frans FlorisDate: 1565Reference: 25650i
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An allegorical woman on clouds, surrounded by gamboling angels above a landscape with rainbow, lovers and a shepherd with young lambs; representing spring. Etching by C.F. Fritsch the younger.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 39014i
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The Christ Child cleans the believer's heart with a hand-held mop, assisted and venerated by angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
Anton Wierix IIDate: [1600?]Reference: 31784i
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The Christ Child preserves the believer's heart from a snare in which the devil tries to trap it, and from worldly blandishments. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
Anton Wierix IIDate: [1600?]Reference: 31775i
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The Christ Child sweeping a brood of reptilian monsters out of the believer's heart with a broom. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
Anton Wierix IIDate: [1600?]Reference: 31768i
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The Christ Child sleeps as a bridegroom in the believer's heart, making it safe as a bride from wind and storm raging outside. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
Anton Wierix IIDate: [1600?]Reference: 31778i
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Symptoms of depression. Ten colour lithographs commissioned by CIBA-GEIGY, ca. 1975.
CIBA-GEIGY LimitedDate: [1975?]Reference: 647543i
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A Gallic druid is using a mallet to remove a ring which hemmed in a globe inscribed "Gaul"; he is assisted by two Roman soldiers and surrounded by female allegorical figures, a sickle and fasces, while the Olympian gods look on from above; representing the opening of Gaul to the Roman Empire. Etching.
Reference: 39086i
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'The universal magazine' enabling the sciences and arts to flourish. Etching, 174-.
Date: [between 1740 and 1749?]Reference: 2439196i
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Johann Caspar Lavater: allegorical mourners at his tomb. Etching by J.H. Lips, ca. 1801.
Johann Heinrich LipsDate: 1801Reference: 2200315i
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A tree showing the evolution of health care in the twentieth century. Colour print by J. Galloway and R. Richards, 2011.
Galloway, John, (Head of the Dental Team Studies Unit at the Eastman Dental Hospital)Date: [2011]Reference: 771888i
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Men diving into the Fleet ditch, London; representing the activities of political scandal-mongers. Process print after C. Grignion after F. Hayman.
Francis HaymanReference: 35461i