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Four decorative Maori figures within a red oval representing an advertisement for Whakapuakitanga, a support group for young gay or bisexual Māori men; advertisement by the NZ AIDS Foundation and Te Roopu Tautoko Trust. Colour lithograph by Paul Henckel [?], 1993.
Date: [19]93Reference: 669372i- Digital Images
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Rules for acupuncture prohibitions, Chinese woodcut, 1443
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An essay on the demonstration of the human structure, half as large as nature, in four tables. From the pictures painted after dissections, for that purpose. Disposed in such a Manner, as to represent gradually all the Capital Parts of the Human Body in their natural Situation, as they appear in Dissection when the Sanguiferous Vessels are injected. Calculated To convey a clearer artificial Idea of the Animal Oeconomy than has hitherto appeared in any other Anatomical Figures. By Charles Nicholas Jenty, A. M. Professor of Anatomy and Surgery.
Jenty, Charles Nicholas.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Pictures
A satirical new year's gift representing the spoiling of the year by speculation in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720-1721. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 814509iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
The Dutch financial crisis of 1720: the city of Amsterdam represents the voice of reason and resists disastrous speculation, while investors elsewhere are ruined . Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812357iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
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A framed picture falls off a cornice marked 'National Honour'; representing dishonour for Great Britain perceived by the Whigs in the Anglo-Spanish convention on the Falkland Islands. Engraving, 1771.
Date: 1771Reference: 579637i- Books
A newly discovered and possibly the earliest known pictorial representation of Parkinsonian (?) encephalitis lethargica / by G. Vandendriessche.
Vandendriessche, G.Date: 1991- Pictures
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A woman representing philosophy. Etching by B. Audran the elder, c. 1700, after Raphael.
Raphael, 1483-1520.Reference: 25986i- Pictures
Anatomical figures with detachable parts. Colour lithographs by American Manikin Co., ca. 1890.
Date: [1890?]Reference: 2133374i- Pictures
Justice with her attributes. Engraving by J. Frey, 1725, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
Domenichino, 1581-1641.Date: [1725]Reference: 3086004i- Pictures
Predella with three scenes of Saint Roch, and figures of Saint Peter, Christ as Salvator Mundi, Saint Laurence and Saint Paul. Oil painting by a French (?) painter.
Date: [between 1580? and 1620?]Reference: 45996i- Books
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A modern universal table, the most copious and authentick that ever was published, of the present state of the real and imaginary monies of the world: divided into four parts, viz. Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Which are Sub-Divided into Sixty Parts or Lines, containing the Names of the most Capital Places, the Species whereof are specified, each Sub-Division in one Line, ascending from the Beginning to the End, teaching how the Monies are reckoned by the respective Nations; and Figures standing under the Denomination of each Foreign Piece, is the English intrinsick Value thereof, according to the best Assays made at the Mint of the Tower of London. Explanation. By Real Money, is understood an effective Specie, representing in itself, the Value denominated thereby, as, A Guinea, &c. (other Pieces, as A Pound Sterling, &c. - This Mark is prefixed to the Imaginary Money, which is generally made use of in keeping Accompts, signifying a fictitious Piece which is not in being, or which cannot be represented but by several - This Mark of Alligation and Dependance is the Sign of Equality, signifying is, make, or equal to. - This Mark is set under each Line, to lead the Eye to the intrinsick Value in Sterling of each Foreign Piece standing over it, and all Fractions therein contained are Parts of a Penny. The whole contrived and accurately calculated, by John Paraire, who disowns all such tables, which are not signed by himself as counterfeits, And is willing to clear any Doubt that may arise about the Monies of any Place, and to resolve any Questions either in Exchange or Arbitrations. Humbly Dedicated to the merchants of England.
Paraire, John.Date: 1756- Pictures
The dynastic marriage of William of Orange and Mary Stuart: above, they are brought together before a bust of Hercules; below, their wedding in London on 4 November 1677. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1678.
Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708.Date: [1678?]Reference: 3223737i- Pictures
The game of goose applied to the countries of the world. Engraving by Antoine de Fer after Louis Richer.
Richer, Louis.Date: [between 1652 and 1673]Reference: 35129i- Pictures
A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Etching by or after G. Fortuna.
Fortuna, Giovanni, 1535-1611.Reference: 33803i- Pictures
The dance of death. Lithograph.
Reference: 28949i- Pictures
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A fashionable lecturer demonstrates the art of physiognomy through reference to busts. Etching, 1765.
Date: 1765Reference: 34515i- Pictures
The wheel of Fortune, showing the rise and fall of European powers. Etching and letterpress, ca. 1689.
Date: [1689?]Reference: 2136945i- Pictures
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Minerva, as goddess of the arts, shaking hands with Italia; behind them Mercury, the messenger god. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1789, after Burney.
Date: 31 Jan[uar]y 1789Reference: 39070i- Digital Images
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The ecology of influenza A viruses
Dolores Murcia- Pictures
At the request of John Law, Deception blinds the world, thus obscuring the disastrous consequences of Law's financial schemes. Etching by Pieter van den Berge, 1720.
Berge, Pieter van den, active 1689-1737.Date: [1720?]Reference: 814387iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
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Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 575181i- Mixed materials
Spinal disease and spinal curvature : their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage / by Lewis A. Sayre.
Sayre, Lewis A. (Lewis Albert), 1820-1900.Date: 1877- Archives and manuscripts
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), novelist: notes on his health
Curle, Richard, 1883-1968.Date: 1936Reference: MS.8512- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor and tooth-drawer with his company, performing operations and offering medicines for sale from a waggon to a crowd of people in Rome. Wood engraving, 1872.
Date: 11 May 1872Reference: 21053i