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Nenia Britannica; or, A sepulchral history of Great Britain; From the earliest period to its general conversion to Christianity. Including a complete series of the British, Roman, and Saxon sepulchral rites and ceremonies, with the contents of several hundred burial places, opened under a careful inspection of the author. The barrows containing urns, swords, spear-heads, daggers, knives, battle-axes, shields, and armill:̆-decorations of women; consisting of gems, pensile ornaments, bracelets, beads, gold and silver buckles, broaches ornamented with precious stones; several magical instruments; some very scarce and unpublished coins; and a variety of other curious relics deposited with the dead. Tending to illustrate the early part of and to fix on a more unquestionable criterion for the study of antiquity: to which are added, observations on the Celtic, British, Roman, and Danish Barrows, discovered in Britain. By the Rev. James Douglas, F.A.S. chaplain in Ordinary to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Douglas, James, 1753-1819.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Pictures
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A pedlar with his tray of wares holds up a pair of scissors. Line engraving after M. Laroon, 1711.
Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702.Reference: 16255i- Pictures
Hands of a worker using a secure blade to cut away a piece of fabric stuck in a mechanical loom. Colour lithograph, ca. 199-.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999?]Reference: 653697i- Pictures
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A knife-grinder sharpening a blade on a grinding wheel as a customer arrives with a plane to be sharpened. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 34959i- Books
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The most true and wonderfull narration of two women bewitched in Yorkshire : who coming to the assizes at York to give in evidence against the witch, after a most horrible noise, to the terror and amazement of all the beholders, did vomit forth before the judges, pins, wool and hafts of knives, &c., all which was done (to make the wonder more wonderfull) without the least drop of bloud or moisture from their mouths : also a most true relation of a young maid not far from Luyck who being bewitched in the same manner did (most incredibly) vomit forth wadds of straw, with pins a crosse in them, iron nails, needles, points, and whatsoever she had seen in the basket of the witch that did bewitch her / as it is attested under the hand of that most famous phisitian Doctor Henry Heers ; together, how it pleased God that he was afterwards recovered by the art of physick, and the names of the ingredients and the manner how to make that rare receipt that cured her.
Heer, Henri de, 1570-1636Date: 1658- Pictures
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A man sharpening a blade on a whetstone. Etching by F. Perrier.
Perrier, François, 1590?-1656?Reference: 11416i- Pictures
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Diagrams illustrating how to perform a mastectomy and cauterise the wound. Pen drawing by ZS (?), 19--, after an engraving, 1603.
Reference: 22454i- Pictures
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A warrior. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28414i- Pictures
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Mirrors: tools and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Reference: 43410i- Pictures
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"The monster" (Renwick Williams) attacking a woman with a knife and fork. Etching by J. Gillray, 1790.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 10 May 1790Reference: 11193i- Pictures
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The implements used by Mr. Young in his experiments to collect opium in Scotland. Engraving by A. W. Warren, c. 1819, after W. Newton.
Newton, W.Date: 1819Reference: 25045i- Pictures
A man splitting coconuts to make hookas. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 25402i- Pictures
A poppy capsule oozing drops of crude opium and tools for its extraction. Lithograph, ca. 1850.
Sherwill, W. S. (Walter Stanhope)Date: [1851]Reference: 25040i- Pictures
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A witch casting spells over a steaming cauldron. Engraving by H.S. Thomassin after Demaretz.
Demaretz.Reference: 37874i- Ephemera
W. Durham, razor, scissar and pen-knife maker : cutler to his Majesty, Regent Steet (west side near Portland Place) : manufacturer of all sorts of fine & table cutlery : cutlery carefully ground & repaired.
Durham, W.Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]- Pictures
A man sharpening a blade on a whetstone. Etching by S.F. Ravenet after R. Dalton, 1745.
Dalton, Richard, 1715?-1791.Date: 12 August 1745Reference: 663740i- Pictures
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A man cuts his finger with a knife; representing the sense of touch. Pen drawing by A. Overlaet, 1761, after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1761Reference: 27093i- Pictures
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A Sikh and his wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 28826i- Pictures
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Indian hunter and wife. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 32743i- Pictures
An ancient altar from Hadrian's villa, on a base carved in bas-relief from a carving in Villa Barberini. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1762.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: [between 1768 and 1778]Reference: 3025792i- Pictures
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Six cross-sections through a foot. Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
Léveillé, J. B. F. (Jean Baptiste François), 1769-1829.Date: 1875Reference: 23252i- Ephemera
Splendid show rooms at the King's Cutlery manufactory and Sheffield Plate Warehouse / Joseph Rodgers and Sons.
Joseph Rodgers & Sons.Date: [1828?]- Pictures
A plate decorated with a circumcision scene, a knife for performing the ceremony and the Scroll of Torah. Process print after C.A.
Reference: 22926i- Pictures
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Indian butcher selling meat to some customers. Gouache drawing.
Reference: 32933i- Pictures
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Excision of the shoulder joint (?) Coloured lithograph by M. Hanhart after C. Heath after J.B. Léveillé.
Léveillé, J. B. F. (Jean Baptiste François), 1769-1829.Date: 1875Reference: 23247i